From Monday, six paramedic interns will be stationed in the North-West, four in the North and four in the South.

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Health Minister Sarah Courtney said increased pressure has been put on paramedics as the health system has escalated its response to the coronavirus pandemic, particularly with the outbreak in the North-West.

"They've been required to transport patients longer distances with the hospitals int the North-West not receiving patients," Ms Courtney said.

In mid-April Ms Courtney announced the Department of Heath would be recruiting 40 to 50 new paramedics, with a focus on deploying additional resources to the North-West.

The Department has also advertised for nurses, doctors and other allied health professionals in recent months.

Ms Courtney said she was pleased a number of people have applied for these positions.

"For the paramedics I know it's about 400 applications across Ambulance Tasmania. I don't have the number of people who have actually been recruited at this stage," she said.

"Tasmanians do respond and it's been very pleasing to see people across the community who have the required skills put up their hands.

"Some are coming back to a career in healthcare from somewhere else, some of them are considering coming out of retirement as well to support our healthcare system."

Ms Courtney said recruitment was a global healthcare challenge and, in addition to seeking new staff, the Tasmanian Health Service was upskilling current staff in areas of likely demand.

"We know that nurses are very highly trained individuals, they often have areas of expertise. As we look at something like a pandemic where we've seen high demand for intensive care areas in other jurisdictions, we will look at how we can provide additional training to nurses to allow them to work in other areas," she said.

The Department is also seeking to recruit infectious disease physicians for the North-West.

But Ms Courtney said a challenge surrounding this was at the moment infectious disease specialist staff were in high demand.

"We are implementing already additional roles of assisting people with PPE and doing a buddy system to ensure that there is somebody there to help and to watch people using PPE to ensure that is it being donned correctly," she said.

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