Doctors slam plan for ‘lame duck’ urgent care GP clinics
The idea is for five general practices to take on urgent patients apparently clogging up local emergency departments
A new plan to use GP practices to offer urgent care services to ease pressures on EDs is doomed to fail amid the current crisis afflicting the specialty, doctors say.
Costing $14 million, under the plan rolled out in Victoria clinics will have to run 16 hours a day, seven days a week and manage patients with conditions requiring urgent attention but not requiring urgent care, such mild infections, fractures and burns.
