What the major parties plan to do for health workers

Here's what Labor and The Coalition have pledged to do for health workers.

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- Here's what the major parties plan to do for health workers. The coalition has made big promises for the bush. With the announcement of $146 million to address the shortage of doctors and other medical professionals in rural communities, which will hopefully ease a little pressure from the rural hospitals and GP clinics.

Other measures include injecting $15 million to the John Flynn Prevocational Doctor Program, which aims to put more than 1,000 junior doctors in rural and regional general practices, $35 million for the innovative models of collaborative care program, $9 million for additional training posts, and $87 million to provide additional workforce incentives.

Here's what labor has pledged to-- deliver 50 Medicare urgent clinics where people can attend for non-life threatening treatment with the aim to take pressure off overworked emergency departments. They've also committed to changing current rules put in place by the Coalition to allow regional and outer metro communities to recruit doctors locally and from overseas. Labor has also matched what the coalition has announced for rural and regional communities.