GP Super Clinic for Caboolture
Jon Sullivan,Mark Butler
posted Thursday, 12 August 2010
Parliamentary Secretary for Health Mark Butler and Member for Longman Jon Sullivan today announced the Gillard Labor Government will offer funding to build a new GP Super Clinic for Caboolture to improve access to health services for local families.
GP Super Clinics are a key part of the Gillard Labor Government’s plan to improve GP and other primary care services around the country.
The GP Super Clinic will offer after hours GP services and will help take the pressure off Caboolture Hospital.
Labor Member for Longman Jon Sullivan said this is a great result for the local community.
“I have lobbied the Minister for a GP Super Clinic for our community and I am proud that a re-elected Gillard Labor Government will make this investment for Caboolture,” said Jon Sullivan.
“Easy and timely access to health services is important for local families.
“The Gillard Labor government wants to invest in health services in communities like Caboolture. This new Super Clinic adds to the investments already made in Caboolture, including upgrades to the Caboolture Hospital Emergency Department, and investments to support medical training locally.”
Mark Butler said: “A GP Super Clinic in Caboolture will mean more services are available where people need them – close to home.
“Tony Abbott and the Coalition have committed to scrapping funding for GP Super Clinics, which means people in Caboolture will miss out on the services this clinic will provide.
“As Health Minister in the previous government, Tony Abbott ripped $1 billion out of our public hospitals – his latest health announcements are not only meagre, they contain a massive $500 million hole.
“Tony Abbott doesn’t understand economic policy, just like he doesn’t understand the importance of vital health funding for people in Caboolture.”
GP Super Clinics are a key part of the Gillard Labor government’s plan to improve access to coordinated health care services for the local community.
They provide a quality setting to help train some of the 3,000 nurses and 1,300 GPs who will come on-line as a result of Federal Labor’s investments to address Mr Abbott’s health workforce shortages.
The Gillard Labor Government will provide up to $15 million to for the establishment of the Caboolture GP Super Clinic, as part of the funding for additional GP Super Clinics provided for in the 2010-11 Budget.
A competitive process will be conducted by the Department of Health and Ageing to determine the successful operator of the new Caboolture GP Super Clinic.
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