More urgent care clinics will roll out across Victoria and NSW to ease pressure on emergency departments.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Services will operate for extended hours and patients will not be charged for services provided by GPs, including patients without a Medicare card.<br /><br />These new services will be commissioned in partnership with Primary Health Networks to set them up in places of highest demand.<br /><br />The 25 extra centres will bring the total number of such clinics across the two states to 50.
