GP practice to close after losing half its FTE doctors in a year
Goyder's Line Medical has been unable to attract a new registrar for at least 18 months.
A GP practice that was saved from closure four years ago is shutting for good after losing half its FTE doctors within a year.
Goyder’s Line Medical — which runs two other practices in SA towns Jamestown and Orroroo and services three local hospitals — has announced its clinic in Peterborough in the state’s mid-north will close on 8 August.
Its services to Peterborough Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital will also end.
Practice principal Dr Simon Jackson said it had become difficult to provide doctors for six sites “because of the maldistribution of the workforce”.
