Louise Miller-Frost (Boothby, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I know you aren't supposed to have favourite children, but I have to say that, of all my election commitments, the health ones are my favourite. The urgent care clinic at Marion opened just over a year ago and has seen over 11½ thousand patients. That's 11½ thousand fewer people in Flinders Medical Centre ED, and they're being seen quickly and bulk-billed. The endometriosis and pelvic pain clinic at Thrive medical practice in Glenelg is, well, thriving! It's serving patients from all over Adelaide.

Our major tertiary hospital, Flinders Medical Centre, is 50 years old and it looks it. The Albanese Labor government has partnered with the Malinauskas Labor government for an upgrade of Flinders and the adjacent repat hospital. The end result will be an additional 150 beds, a new emergency department, a new eye surgery unit and much more. Already, over 46 beds have been opened. At Flinders, this was through repurposing office and administration spaces into clinical spaces. At repat, it has meant the rebuild of the geriatric evaluation and management unit, or GEM unit. The Margaret Tobin inpatient mental health service is being built and expanded, with double the beds.

Added to this is the tripling of the Medicare bulk-billing incentive, which has meant an increase of four per cent in bulk-billing in Boothby, and cheaper medicines. This is transformational for health care in Boothby. And these are a few of my favourite things.