Minister for Health Greg Hunt is not apologising after GP practices were bombarded with thousands of angry calls from patients following the botched rollout of the Federal Government’s COVID-19 vax booking system.

GPs say they had no clue that the online directory was going live yesterday listing the contact details of 1000 practices tasked with administering the AstraZeneca vaccine next week.

Some 190,000 people across Australia subsequently attempt to book a consult through the site.

However, most practices were listed as accepting bookings by telephone only, despite the practices being told the site would redirect patients to their own online booking systems.