🚀SA Hospitals to Get $56.3 Million Boost from Federal Budget

May 23, 2024

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The Malinauskas and Albanese governments are collaborating to relieve the strain on South Australian hospitals. The Albanese Government's investment in strengthening Medicare in South Australia, which is included in the 2024–25 Budget, includes a $56.3 million package to support older South Australians and provide more urgent care.The package includes:   

  • $42.9 million for South Australia to provide hospital outreach to residential aged care, and a grants scheme to assist complex older patients transition from hospital to community settings 

  • Up to $4.6 million to extend the successful Acute to Residential Care Transition Program to support people with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia  

  • $2.1 million to help older people recover from a hospital stay with short-term care through the extended Transition Care Programme, and  

  • Up to $1.8 million to extend the Comprehensive Palliative Care in Aged Care program, to support new and advanced ways of delivering end-of-life care.  

 People in the northeast of Adelaide will also have better access to fully bulk billed urgent care from highly trained doctors and nurses, with an additional Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) to be established to take pressure off Modbury Hospital. This location was chosen in close consultation with the South Australian Government.

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Health and Age care Minister Mark Butler said Medicare Urgent Care Clinics are a key part of the Albanese Government’s commitment to strengthen Medicare and make health care more accessible and affordable. 

“The clinics have treated thousands of Australians who would either face a long wait in the emergency department or who simply put off getting treatment at all.

 

“A local Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will give people in northeast Adelaide better access to urgent care where and when they need it.

 

“Our broader investments in strengthening Medicare will support older South Australians to get better care outside of the hospital system, further reducing the load on local hospitals and freeing up beds for other patients.”  Butler said.

In 2022–23, almost a third of presentations to the Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals were for non-urgent or semi-urgent care. The 58 existing Medicare Urgent Care Clinics have already seen more than 400,000 presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023. This includes more than 24,000 visits to South Australian clinics, located in Elizabeth, Marion, Morphett Vale, Mount Gambier and Western Adelaide. Across the South Australian Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, over 1 in 5 visits have been children under the age of 15, and over 1 in 4 visits have been outside normal working hours.

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