The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory has raised concerns with the Country Liberal Party about its proposal to allow pharmacists to treat more medical conditions currently treated by GPs.

The Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services peak body said the proposal "blurs the line" between diagnosis and treatment for a range of potential complex medical conditions.

AMSANT chief executive Dr John Paterson said while the Alliance supported community pharmacy playing a significant role in the frontline health system, the CLP proposals went "too far".

"We have written to the CLP to flag our concerns and I know that other health organisations have done so as well," said Dr Paterson.

"We need to make sure local communities have good quality medical services, joined up across the system. That can involve using the capacity of pharmacists and we've seen that in areas like vaccinations.

"But we also need to be cognisant of boundaries that are there for good reason. General practitioners should be diagnosing conditions and pharmacists treating conditions where medications are required."

Dr Paterson said a strategy similar to the CLP's proposal had failed in Queensland.

"We've seen the CLP's proposed approach tried in Queensland and it has been a disaster with misdiagnosis and over prescribing of antibiotics, which can lead to people building up a resistance making those drugs ineffective when they are required," he said.

"All of these problems are foreseeable. We support political parties looking at better, more joined-up medical service models to get health services to people who need them, but this is not the way to achieve that goal."

Dr Paterson said he would welcome consultation with the Alliance to plan policy reforms that will be effective in local communities.

"Surely by now we have learned the lessons of the past – the first step in tackling local problems, including the need for more investment in local community health is to speak with those communities," he said.

"I'll take a call from anyone interested in practical solutions to get more and better health service to local Aboriginal communities."

The Northern Territory goes to the polls on August 24.