Portland GP clinic seeks childcare worker in bid to end crippling shortages

Brittany Butten is among a number of Portland GPs struggling to access enough childcare. (Supplied: Media Masters)

A GP clinic in south-west Victoria has taken the extraordinary step of seeking an in-house childcare worker to combat crippling childcare shortages in the region. 

Six of Active Health Portland's eight GPs and nurses have pre-school age children, but can't find enough childcare for them to enable them to work the hours they want.