Elderly patients missing out on care due to border controls
An 'arbitrary' line on a map is making patients vulnerable, say GP practices on the Queensland-NSW border
GPs and other specialists from the Tweed and Gold Coast regions are warning that elderly patients are missing out on care as they’re too frightened to cross the state line for appointments.
Border controls, implemented as part of coronavirus measures, have seen patients turned back at the border on their way to see interstate doctors, they reveal.
And medical reception staff are fielding numerous calls on how to navigate the red tape.
The practices have emailed Gold Coast MP, Ros Bates, urging her to lobby the Queensland Labor Government to have the COVID-19 border restrictions reviewed.
