Tristar sacked over rural community ‘failure’
The GP corporate has not recruited an adequate number of doctors, claims the health service
Tristar Medical Group has been sacked by a rural hospital, which says Australia’s largest rural GP corporate failed to provide enough doctors to service its local communities.
The company has recently fended off claims that it is in financial trouble after a number of its doctors suggested they had not been paid on time.
In another blow, West Wimmera Health Service, a healthcare provider for rural Victoria, says it has pulled the plug on its 12-year relationship with the company.
The decision came after Tristar, which operates out of Nhill Hospital, was only able to find one full-time and one part-time doctor to service the towns of Nhill and Kaniva.
