The Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler announced the UCC's on October 18. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

AMA says ACT Medicare UCCs ignores federal government policy

By: Erin Morley in Clinical Practice, Top Stories October 31, 2023 0

Existing Canberra walk-in health clinics will be able to treat a wider range of conditions through merging with new Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (Medicare UCCs). The scheme will be joint funded by the ACT government and will attract an extra $7.1m in federal government funding over three years to the sites from early 2024.

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