Workforce crisis? Another 11,000 GPs need to be found in the next 10 years, new report warns
The GP workforce crisis will be 10 times worse by 2031 based on the failure to fill training places and an exodus of GPs either retiring or finding new…
Tag: IMGs
Why $500,000 is not too much for a remote GP
The GP founder of a major corporate says salaries of $500,000 are firmly within the expectations of city GPs to uproot their lives by moving…
Slashing IMG bureaucracy ‘the only option’ to fix workforce crisis: corporates
This story has been updated with additional comments from AHPRA, see end. IMGs are spending thousands of dollars meeting unnecessary bureaucratic requirements, such as…
$500k salaries and rent-free practices on offer in towns desperate for a GP
In a specialty filled with intractable problems, the one Dr Rob Bond had to grapple with was how to lure solo GPs to small rural towns. A solo…
It’s general practice that’s broken, and it’s general practice that needs to be fixed
The survivability crisis facing general practice that many of us in the profession have been thinking about, talking about and predicting for some time is…
Workforce crisis: Do inner-city GP practices also need IMGs?
A city practice serving a major multicultural community says IMG workforce rules need more exemptions that are not purely based on geography. The Blair Athol…
IMG quits Australia after year-long paperwork battle with AHPRA
An IMG who spent years battling bureaucracy to work as a GP in a small Tasmanian town says Australia is missing out on doctors because of the “long and inefficient” process. Dr Joris Asselbergs spent 12…
Is the proposed urgent care model pie in the sky?
Labor’s capture of the Central Coast seat in the election this year has brought a new perspective on how to manage overcrowded EDs. It has…
GP corporates warn of ‘catastrophe’ as bulk-billing becomes unsustainable
Shrinking margins and the collapse of Tristar have meant traditional rivals now have a united front.
Hundreds of rural practices brace for the IMG exodus
Dr Michael Clements says he understands why.
