Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the University of Queensland have announced a multi-million-dollar deal for two super clinics in Brisbane.
The new medical clinics, costing $7.5 million, will be opened at Annerley and Logan by early 2011, Mr Rudd said on Thursday.
The government is spending $275 million on one-stop-shop clinics, which are staffed by general practitioners, nurses and other allied health professionals.Mr Rudd, speaking at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane, said the super clinics would provide a decent set of community based, extended GP and allied health services available to the Australian community.
"GP super clinics are the way of the future," he said."If you've got a sick kid at 10 o'clock at night, you want some flexible hours so you can take your kid down to the local GP rather than having to trek him down to the emergency ward ... and wait for hours.
"My experience is that most kids time their sickness for the most inconvenient times, and we need to be more flexible by the way we have community services available."













