Health officials misled the public about the cost per service at ACT’s nurse-led walk-in clinics by burying roughly $10 million in expenses, reveal documents obtained by The Canberra Times.

Canberra Health Services previously stated it did not record the cost of each presentation at the clinics but provided an average of “less than $110” per service.

Internal emails released under freedom of information laws showed that the true figure appeared to be closer to $200.

It was also revealed that officials had not measured the number of walk in–centre patients redirected to EDs since October 2022.