The Albanese Government is pleased to announce a provider has been selected to operate the new Lilydale Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) following a competitive tender process led by the Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network.
Access Health and Community has been identified as the successful provider to operate the Lilydale Medicare Urgent Care Clinic which will be located at 17 Clarke Street, Lilydale.
The clinic will be open seven days a week operating extended hours.
The new Urgent Care Clinic will begin providing care for the community over the coming months.
The clinic will help to ease pressure on the Maroondah Hospital Emergency Department, where around 32 per cent of presentations in 2023-24 were for semi-urgent or non-urgent conditions.
The Lilydale Medicare Urgent Care Clinic will join a network of 29 Medicare UCCs across Victoria, including 20 which have already opened.
Ninety Medicare UCCs are in operation across Australia, which have already seen more than 2.1 million presentations since the first sites opened in June 2023. This includes over 458,200 presentations to the existing Victorian Medicare UCCs.
Quotes attributable to Minister Butler:
“The Albanese Government is getting on with the job of delivering more Medicare Urgent Care Clinics for people in Victoria.
“The new clinic in Lilydale will be open seven days a week, extended hours and most importantly they’ll be fully bulk billed.”
“This clinic will take pressure off the local hospitals, including the Maroondah Hospital and will fill an important gap in services across extended hours and over the weekend.”
Quotes attributable to Senator Darmanin:
“When kids get sick or accidents happen, the last thing Victorians want is to spend time in an emergency waiting room or worry about the cost of care.”
“This clinic means people in Lilydale and right across the Yarra Ranges can be seen by a doctor quickly and closer to home.”
3 December 2025
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Enya Pelling: 0423 727 896 (Butler)
Grace Britton: 0433 301 831 (Darmanin)
