Rural GP cash no solution to suburban funding woes, says RDAA
The doctors' group says it sympathises with practices that have lost incentives but says the money needs to go to 'truly rural' practices
The RDAA has defended the Federal Government’s rural zoning shake-up that saw bulk-billing incentives reduced for 7000 GPs in January.
There have been growing demands for the Department of Health’s rural classification system to be revised, with GPs in outer suburbs and regional towns warning it threatens their viability.
Last month a GP from southern WA predicted her practice would be forced to close within two years after being declared a major city under the department’s Modified Monash Model.
In recent years, the practice — in Pinjarra, 85km south of Perth — has lost rural bulk-billing incentives and the ability to recruit IMGs.
