Survey results: GPs on bulk-billing, the election and patient enrolment
Not all GPs believe that future reform should involve voluntary patient enrolment
As the country makes its gradual escape from the worst of the pandemic, you sense the exhaustion of frontline health workers.
For them, the pressures continue.
Unfortunately, they will find little salvation from the federal election, at least judged by the campaign pledges made so far.
The reform agenda confronting general practice after democracy has its say will be unchanged: the idea that the system should move away from fee-for-service, with more funding going directly to the practice to manage complex patients through some form of patient enrolment.
