Victoria's ambulance union says lives might be saved, if extra sufferers have been seen by GPs, as non emergency calls proceed to clog up the system.
Union secretary Danny Hill mentioned paramedics are underneath the pump and extra GPs might be the answer to addressing the continued emergency disaster.
"There is no such thing as a query that we have now sufferers which have handed away that might have been saved by paramedics," he mentioned.
"We have got sufferers going into cardiac arrest locally and our paramedics cannot reply actually because they're tied up at fairly low acuity instances that might be handled by a GP."
The Royal Australian School of Normal Practitioners says there's a scarcity and work must be achieved to draw extra medical doctors.
RACGP Victoria's Dr Anita Munoz mentioned there was an absence of long run funding into common practitioners.
"The federated mannequin of funding in well being not makes as a lot sense because it used to," she mentioned.
The Northern Hospital has been working a digital emergency division for sufferers with non life threatening emergencies.
The ambulance union mentioned providers like this have been providing sufferers extra choices.
"It frees them up to allow them to go and reply to extra time crucial instances," Mr Hill mentioned.
"Tremendous clinics are additionally a incredible possibility."