A Gold Coast general practitioner says pressure on clinics and hospital emergency departments doesn't look set to ease soon despite a billion-dollar hospital promise for her region.
She said patients had complex chronic diseases, mental health issues and other lifestyle diseases.
"It's going to cater to the end result, you know, the heart attacks, the strokes, the cancers that are increasing, but will it solve my problem day to day as a GP or running a practice? No, I don't think so." "So we are dealing with the immediate demand, and planning for what we'll need for the next decade as well," Ms D'Ath said.
She said more needed to be done to see allied health and federally-funded health care working together.
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