Newstead Medical Centre have lodged a development application with the City of Launceston council, to establish an urgent care centre at the Elphin Road practice.

The new facility would be specifically designed to care for people with a range of non-life threatening illnesses and injuries requiring urgent care, but limited to category four and five cases.

With growing wait times for non-emergent cases presenting at emergency departments, Newstead Medical Centre GP and partner Dr Toby Gardner said the proposed centre could help relieve pressures facing the LGH.

"We know at the moment the [LGH] emergency department sees about 115 patients a day. But we know a lot of those are not patients who need to be seen in an emergency department facility," he said.

"A review of the recent ambulance transfers to the hospital have shown at least 40 per cent of these people have been deemed non acute, when they've been picked up.

"Certainly, the after hours data of the patients that present ... only about 2 per cent of them are actual emergencies that need to be seen in an emergency department. The vast majority could be seen at the centre."

The urgent care centre, which will be built as an extension to current practice, would feature on-site x-rays, pathology and an on-site pharmacy.

Plans have been prepared for an eight-bay treatment facility, and a four-bay infusion centre for drips and intravenous medications.

No appointments would be necessary and the centre would be seven days a week, initially from 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Dr Gardner said one of the biggest demographics the urgent care centre would cater for would be the elderly, who often require more time because of the complexity of cases.

"That's where we see we have a big role to help relieve the pressure - those older and frailer patients put into the emergency department," he said.

"Because they require a fair amount of time to order relevant tests and to wait to get all of those things back.

"Our centre will be able to hold those patients, in a bed for a number of hours, while we wait for those tests to come back.

"Hopefully, the plan is to then allow them to get back to the nursing home and treat them in the nursing home, without having to go to the hospital."

According to the development application, no arrangement has been or will be made with Ambulance Tasmania to deliver emergency patients to the facility.

However, Dr Garnder said they were exploring arrangements with extended care paramedics able to triage patients in non-emergent cases.