Extending care through the flu season

Support Providers
Written By Cristy Houghton

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) supported general practices to increase access to care during the 2026 flu season. 

Through the After Hours Flu Season Grants, practices and Aboriginal Medical Services received funding to extend existing after-hours services or introduce additional after-hours consultations during May and June. Practices provided up to five additional GP consulting hours each week, helping patients whose health needs could not wait until regular services were next available.  

The initiative aimed to keep patients well in the community and reduce non-urgent presentations to hospital emergency departments, while improving equitable access to primary care after hours. Funding was targeted to achieve geographic spread across the Murrumbidgee, with consideration given to communities where other after-hours options were limited.  

Grant recipients 

  • Connection Medical Centre Tumut  

  • Corowa Medical Clinic  

  • Country Med Group  

  • Culcairn Mediclinic  

  • Fitzroy Medical Centre  

  • Glenrock Country Practice  

  • Griffith Medical Centre  

  • Hay Medical Centre  

  • Hillston Medical Centre  

  • Kruger Medical Centre  

  • Lockhart Medical Practice  

  • Mulwala Medical Centre and Skin Clinic  

  • Redgum Medical Corowa  

  • St George Family Medical Centre  

  • Tumut Family Medical Centre

Cristy Houghton
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