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Med schools need higher rural quotas to solve workforce crisis: AMA

19th September 2019

Medical schools need to introduce higher quotas of rural students to address the health workforce distribution crisis, the…

2nd September 2019

Some GPs say they will lose more than $20,000 in Medicare revenue a year under looming cuts to rural bulk-billing incentives…

4th July 2019

Practices already struggling to survive in country towns and city outskirts could “become unviable” under a planned…

12th June 2019

The RACGP and ACRRM have joined forces to apply for rural generalist medicine to be formally recognised as a sub-specialty…

5th December 2019

There is a window of opportunity to act, say experts

21st March 2019

The RACGP says it will scrap its advanced rural practice fellowship and instead begin offering an ACRRM-style rural…

25th January 2019

An “obviously rural” practice operating with no town water, sewerage or street lights — and located 45 minutes from the…

14th November 2018

One of Australia’s biggest corporates says it may have to privately bill patients to keep its small-town clinics above water…