Practice attacked in media for charging extra to see a female GP
Another practice is embroiled in a media storm after announcing its female doctors planned to charge a 'small' out-of-pocket cost
A GP practice appears to have reversed its decision to introduce out-of-pocket fees for consults with its female doctors following a media backlash.
Complaints were originally triggered about a notice on the website of the MyClinic Prahran which said “all appointments booked with our female doctors” would in future incur a small out-of-pocket cost.
For male doctors at the practice, standard consults would be bulk billed, although initial consults and some procedures did attract out-of-pocket fees.
“I think the consensus was that everyone was quite horrified at that flyer,” one patient told Melbourne ABC radio.
