‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’: Urgent care clinics failing to relieve pressure on hospitals, say doctors
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Source: The Age
Published: 2026-08-01 19:00 UTC+10:00
Section: Politics / Victoria
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Politics, Australia, Labour & Workers, Commodities
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Dozens of multimillion-dollar urgent care clinics set up around Victoria and touted by politicians as a silver bullet for the state’s healthcare crisis are doing “absolutely nothing” to ease pressure on overstretched hospitals, while threatening the viability of GP practices, doctors warn.
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