Assistant Minister for Defence Andrew Hastie officially opens ACT Health Centre at Duntroon

Joint-capabilities

31 March 2022

By: Nastasha Tupas

Assistant Minister for Defence Andrew Hastie officially opens ACT Health Centre at Duntroon

Assistant Minister for Defence, the Hon Andrew Hastie, MP, with Rear Admiral Sarah Sharkey (centre right), AM, CSC, Commander of Joint Health Command, after the ACT Health Centre official opening at Duntroon, Canberra, on Thursday, 31 March 2022. Left to right: Brigadier Craig Schramm, Head of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps; Commodore Nicole Curtis, Director-General of Garrison Health at Joint Health Command; Assistant Minister for Defence, the Hon Andrew Hastie MP; Rear Admiral Sarah Sharkey; Lieutenant Colonel Nerida McManus, CSC, Commanding Officer of Joint Health Unit for Southern New South Wales. (PHOTO: Kym Smith)

The new ACT Health Centre at Duntroon was officially opened on Thursday by the Assistant Minister for Defence Andrew Hastie, and will provide high quality health care in a modern, well-equipped facility to Defence members in Canberra and the surrounding NSW region.

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The $40 million ACT Health Centre is part of the Australian government’s more than $250 million investment in new and upgraded health facilities across 13 Australian Defence Force sites nationally.

According to Hastie, the new ACT Health Centre provides holistic and best practice health care to ADF members posted in and around Canberra, ensuring they are fit to fight, fit to work, and fit for life.

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"The health and wellbeing of our Defence personnel is key to our operational capability and these upgraded facilities will enhance the quality of life of individuals, their families and the broader community," Hastie said.

"The Duntroon health centre delivers integrated primary health care services, dental services, mental health care, physiotherapy, rehabilitation and pharmacy, as well as an 18-bed ward for low dependency inpatient care."

The new health centre will be able to support approximately 6,700 ADF members across the ACT and surrounding NSW region, including members undergoing training at the Australian Defence Force Academy, the Royal Military College-Duntroon and the Australian Defence College at Weston Creek.

There are 185 highly skilled and committed staff working at the health centre including military personnel, public servants and contracted health professionals providing high quality health care.

Assistant Minister Hastie thanked the staff at the ACT Health Centre for their hard work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The staff provided COVID-19 testing services to the local Defence community and administered over 15,000 vaccine doses to Canberra-based ADF members and Australian Public Service and Australian Signals Directorate personnel.

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"The new ACT Health Centre is a demonstration of the Morrison government’s commitment to providing the very best in healthcare and rehabilitation services to meet the needs of our ADF personnel," Hastie said.