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(From Canberra Times)
Free GP clinics at public hospitals were unlikely to ease overcrowding in casualty departments, according to Australasian College of Emergency Medicine and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
The ACT Government plans to set up GP clinics at Canberra Hospital and Calvary Hospital mid-year to ease pressure on the emergency department.
The plan has patients with minor illnesses being diverted to the clinics rather than waiting in the emergency department.
Australasian College of Emergency Medicine president Dr Ian Knox said overcrowding in hospital emergency departments was a national problem.
Closing hospital beds had contributed to the problem, causing hospital occupancy rates to exceed 85 per cent.
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