City Mission Funding

The Tasmanian Community Fund (TCF) has provided $240,000 for City Mission’s refurbishment of their Mission Health treatment rooms in Launceston. This funding allows Mission Health to improve the structure of the clinic, allowing more consulting rooms to operate at any given time.

Mission Health is a collaboration between City Mission, UTAS School of Nursing and dedicated community health volunteers that work to provide healthcare to those in Launceston that are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing homelessness.

The clinic is staffed by qualified volunteer nurses employed as academics at the UTAS School of Nursing, who have donated their time to help those experiencing disadvantage.

The service will reduce strain on the local hospital emergency department and provide much needed support to people in Launceston having difficulty accessing healthcare.

A previous 12-month trial of the service has shown it is a welcome addition to the community with the clinic open one morning each week.  There were 228 consultations through the course of the trial.

The treatment rooms provide general health assessments, immunisations, chronic health management, medication support, wound care, sexual health screening and can refer people to other health care services if needed.

TCF Chairperson Sally Darke said the refurbishment will greatly assist this important and impactful service to the Launceston community.

“We know barriers to healthcare access can also be overcome by going to locations where homeless people feel comfortable, such as Mission Health,” Sally said.

“We also know health and wellbeing is essential to helping a person break the cycle of homelessness, especially for young people.

“This infrastructure extension will allow Mission Health to expand the service to six hours per day over four days a week and the expanded infrastructure will also provide office space for a Practice Manager.”