Burnie GP Super Clinic & Vic radiotherapy centre open
Residents from Burnie and surrounds in Tasmania will enjoy greater access to GPs and health professionals closer to home, Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, said at the 10th GP Super Clinic opening in Burnie.
Burnie is the 10th GP Super Clinic now open around the country with 30 either open, providing early services, or under construction.
“The Burnie GP Super Clinic will be home to 5 GPs, 4 nurses, a podiatrist, and a pathologist with more allied health services to come online including an occupational therapist, a wellbeing therapist, an optician, a psychologist and audiology services,” Ms Roxon said.
Minister Roxon said that because of an ageing population and a shortage of local GPs and health professionals, Burnie is an ideal site for this new GP Super Clinic.
“This GP Super Clinic is going to make it easier for the Burnie community to access quality health care close to home.”
The broad range of services on offer at the clinic will help ease the burden on the Emergency Department of the North West Regional Hospital.
Sunshine radiation therapy centre doors open
The first public radiotherapy service in Melbourne’s western suburbs has opened its doors at Sunshine Hospital.
Health Minister, David Davis, opened the Sunshine Hospital Radiation Therapy Centre that forms part of the $184 million Sunshine Hospital redevelopment.
Mr Davis said the $40.5 million new radiotherapy centre will be run jointly by the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Western Health.
The four bunkers of this radiotherapy centre are fitted out with two state-of-the-art linear accelerators, the newest in Victoria. The centre also houses consulting rooms and treatment and planning spaces.
It is expected that up to 900 cancer patients per year will be able to be treated here once this service is fully operational.
The centre will be home to about 50 staff including medical specialists in radiation oncology, radiation therapists, physicists, oncology nurses and allied health staff.
