PHARMACIST-TURNED-FEDERAL politician, Emma McBride, has suggested the Federal Government's decision to make the Wyong-Gorokan and Toukley-Budgewoi areas of her constitency priority areas for GPs, is an election ploy.
While welcoming the decision as "a great relief to many people" in her Central Coast electorate, she said "the Morrison Government has still failed to recognise the severe shortage of GPs across the rest of the Central Coast".
"There are practices in The Entrance, Bateau Bay and other pockets of the Coast that desperately need more GPs," she said.
"They should be a priority too, but they're still being overlooked.
"It's only because... [of] the incredible efforts of our community advocates and doctors that the Government has even taken this step to start to address the GP crisis, but it's not enough.
"This government has failed the people on the Central Coast.
"Clearly, it doesn't consider the health care of people living in the outer suburbs of the region a priority."
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