AMA ACT president Dr Antonio Di Dio said in his three years of his role ACT public hospitals have performed poorly.

"In a time of COVID, if the current ACT election has brought one thing home, it's that we need to question what we used to regard as certainties and that includes taking a hard look at our ACT healthcare system." Dr Di Dio said.

Following the report, the AMA and RACGP have created a list of recommendations, calling for more funding towards public hospitals, improving the quality of care in Canberra and increased assistance for GPs to support patients with mental health concerns. The peak medical bodies have slammed walk-in centres as an "expensive and poor substitute" for Canberrans' access to affordable primary care.

The AMA found ACT has the worst emergency department wait times, with just over 30 per cent of urgent patients seen within the recommended 30 minutes, compared to the national average of 60 per cent of patients seen.

The ACT had the third-longest wait times for elective surgeries, a statistic that Dr Di Dio believes may be worse than the data suggests.

"Elective surgery waiting list statistics are worse than the official data suggests, because they do not include the time that patients wait to see an outpatient specialist before being added to the official waiting list," Dr Di Dio said.

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"If this additional waiting period were to be added, the statistics would be far more realistic, and more sobering."

Dr Di Dio said despite the poor results from the AMA report card, The ACT's medical workforce was "committed, hard-working and provides excellent care - once you can access that care."