New Flinders Street health clinic to offer addiction services in CBD

Key points

• A new health hub for people facing homelessness and drug addiction will open next week opposite Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. Run by Cohealth, the state-funded centre offers GP care, addiction specialists, counselling, and showers and meals.
• Next year it will also host a trial of hydromorphone, an opioid addiction treatment not yet used widely in Australia. Some traders and councillors have raised concerns about anti-social behaviour, but Health Minister Ingrid Stitt says the services will improve the area.
• Victorian overdose deaths reached 632 in 2025, and advocates have called for further action.