Overnight palliative care returned to the Julia Creek Multi-Purpose Health Service after being cut in November last year.

The town had its healthcare downgraded to level one, removing guaranteed overnight emergency services and on-site doctors.
Chief executive, Karen Murphy says the town hasn’t been upgraded back to level two but the health service is in “contract with a general practitioners' organisation that will provide regular GPs at least two days per week”, with efforts to bring back an on-site doctor in the future.