Coroner says all GPs should be subject to compulsory family violence training
Judge John Cain called out the RACGP for refusing to make the training compulsory.
A coroner has criticised the RACGP for failing to mandate its six-hour family violence CPD program after a patient who had told her GP that her son was abusing her was stabbed to death.Â
Caroline Willis, 69, was murdered by her son Jamie in May 2018, soon after she obtained a family violence intervention order preventing him from living in their shared home.
The 40-year-old with a history of methamphetamine use, schizophrenia and psychosis, had been threatening and physically and financially controlling over many years.
The Coroners Court of Victoria was told that during a home visit in 2016, her GP had heard the pair arguing and suggested counselling to get them to listen to each other and live together successfully.
