THE Morrison Government says it will invest $10.4 million in the proposed Yanchep Health Centre.
The $20.8m Yanchep Health Centre will also get $2.3m and $8.1m from Edith Cowan University and the WA state government respectively.
Pearce MHR Christian Porter said the Yanchep Health Centre will establish a new model of primary health care that is patient centric, technology enabled and able to meet the current and future needs of the Yanchep community and surrounding areas.
Mr Porter welcomed the announcement and said the centre would address a healthcare gap in the area.
“Western Australia’s norther suburbs have undergone and continue to undergo significant population growth,” he said.
“The Yanchep Health Centre will provide multidisciplinary health services to residents who would otherwise have to travel in order to access these critical services.
“I’m incredibly proud to see this project become a reality, having worked on it for a number of years with Edith Cowan University and Yanchep Beach Joint Venture.
“Importantly, this is real money in a real budget.”
The new facility will form an integrated and multidiscipline health centre in the Yanchep City Centre within walking distance to the proposed new train station.
The Yanchep Health Centre will have space for medical clinics, allied health and GP, nurse practitioner and community mid wife consulting rooms, treatment rooms and education and training rooms.
Mr Porter said the federal Liberal government’s commitment to the Pearce electorate had been demonstrated by increasing Medicare funding by 49 per cent during the past six years and increasing the number of bulk billed GP services in the electorate by 60 per cent during the past six years.
He said 91 per cent of GP services in Pearce were bulk billed and the number of GPs providing services in Pearce had increased from 124 GPs in 2012-13 to 208 in 2017-18.
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