The Tasmanian Labor Party kicked off its campaign a week before voting, with a strong focus on health.
This comes after the state's governor announced that Tasmania would have a snap election on 19 July, just 16 months after the last state election.
The Labor Party had previously proposed creating five government-run GP clinics in health hubs across the state.
This pledge was matched by the Liberal Party, causing the Labor Party to bump up its promise to 10 clinics at its official campaign launch in Davenport.
"Everywhere I go, people tell me the biggest health issue they want fixed is the fact it takes too long to get an appointment with a doctor, and it costs too much when they can," Labor leader Dean Winter said.
When the clinics were first announced, Labor said it would spend $5 million fitting out the first five, then $4 million a year to keep them running and $2 million towards incentives for GPs to work at them.
In the lead up to the election, the party has already announced three new TassieDoc locations in Risdon Vale, Ravenswood and Devonport. Winter also recognises Glenorchy and Burnie as future locations.
The Labor government’s TassieDoc plan was inspired by the federal and state governments’ Urgent Care Clinics (UCC) with the idea that the state government would provide the clinic and consulting rooms as well as payment for the nursing and administrative staff.
Instead of needing its own practice, doctors would be contractors, and Labor said each clinic would have four full-time equivalent GPs.
Visits to clinics would also be bulkbilled.
Liberal Health spokesperson Jacquie Patrusma calls the announcement a “last-ditch campaign con”.
"The Liberal Government backs establishing sustainable GP clinics in areas of need that are able to be supported and staffed," she said.
"We have generous settlement allowances and settlements on the table, and our viability grants to strengthen practices across the state are working."
Patrusma had said the Liberal Party would not match the expansion pledge.
