More urgent care clinics will roll out across Victoria and NSW to ease pressure on emergency departments.
In a joint press conference on Tuesday, Premiers Daniel Andrews and Dominic Perrottet, said the general practitioner-partnered services will handle issues such as mild infections, fractures and burns.
Services will operate for extended hours and patients will not be charged for services provided by GPs, including patients without a Medicare card.
These new services will be commissioned in partnership with Primary Health Networks to set them up in places of highest demand.
The 25 extra centres will bring the total number of such clinics across the two states to 50.
