How GPs overcame a flooded practice and $1 million bill
“In 70-odd years, the clinic had never seen water inside … The flood reached 1.8m inside the building — just underneath our air conditioning.” It…
Tag: Australia flood crisis 2022
‘Cumbersome, costly, frustrating’: What it’s like facing a $450,000 payroll tax bill
Dr Tonya Coren and her husband Mathew Simpson were issued a $450,000 retrospective payroll tax bill last month and a three-week deadline to pay in…
‘Yeah, I’m depressed’: Doctor’s despair as flood aftermath leaves him $500,000 in debt
Today marks one year since record-breaking floods swept through the NSW Northern Rivers region. But time has stood still since then for Lismore dermatologist Dr…
Anger as GPs financially ruined by floods continue to wait for govt support
GPs whose practices were ravaged 10 months ago by floods that inflicted millions of dollars of damage are still waiting on government support, the AMA…
GP practices face financial ruin as flood recovery drags on
A GP whose practice was flooded six months ago says she’s on the financial brink as she waits for her old practice to be rebuilt,…
Son pays tribute to rheumatologist who died in floodwaters
Dr Alex Klestov's family hopes to raise enough funds to ensure his patients in Central and South-East Queensland have access to rheumatology servic…
‘On a good day I think I can get us back’: GP fights to rebuild her broken practice
Dr Nina Robertson considers the wash up of devastating floods which destroyed almost everything in her practice and have left a huge repair bill.
Telehealth ‘existing relationship rule’ dropped for flood victims
Patients in 60 local government areas in NSW and Queensland are now eligible for unrestricted telehealth.
‘It was like Vietnam’s Mekong Delta with fewer boats’: A GP’s journey into the flood disaster
Dr Cam Hollows, the son of Fred, says people are still living in tents, shelters and cars.
Getting urgent medicines in a flood zone can be a life or death challenge
I’m writing this from the flooded far north coast of NSW, where all around me people are contending with the awful and unexpected consequences of…
