The federally-funded Nowra Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, located at 107 Scenic Drive, is now open extended hours, seven days a week.
No appointment is needed, patients can walk in and all services are bulk billed.
The highly trained doctors and nurses are equipped to treat a range of conditions and injuries that need urgent attention but aren’t life threatening, including cuts, viral infections, or a sprained ankle.
The Nowra Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will ease pressure on the busy Shoalhaven Hospital, where around 51 per cent of presentations in 2024-25 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.
New data from the NSW Bureau of Health shows the Albanese Government’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics across New South Wales are easing pressure on NSW hospitals. Semi-urgent presentations to NSW emergency departments have dropped by 5.1 per cent while non-urgent presentations have dropped by 8.7 per cent.
There are now 36 Medicare Urgent Care Clinics open across New South Wales.
