Rural GPs offered $12,000 compensation after fight over hospital contracts
It's part of a major remuneration overhaul in SA.
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Bonded doctors told ‘bad luck’ on medical school debt offer
Dr David Gillespie says the scheme is meant to avoid some flaws of the Bonded Medical Program, which will continue to be offered.
Govt to ‘wipe medical school debt’ for GPs who go rural
It says GPs working in the most remote areas will have their debts extinguished in half the time it takes to complete their medical education.
Trailblazing Indigenous GP: ‘My journey to medicine’
Dr Louis Peachey says medicine in the 1980s was unfamiliar territory, but he was comforted by a system of respect and teaching that was similar to …
Why this GP wants emergency lights and sirens for his sports car
Dr Michael Livingston says a turning point was responding to a critically ill child half an hour away.
‘Don’t leave the esky in the sun’: How to get cold vaccine to the outback
There’s a rush to vaccinate vulnerable remote Aboriginal communities in New South Wales after spread of the coronavirus out of metropolitan areas has led to…
Local hospital ‘too often’ runs out of antibiotics, GP tells inquiry
Dr Aniello Iannuzzi has shared startling details of a lack of basic medical supplies in central western NSW at an inquiry into rural and regional h…
Drones to be trialled in remote NT communities
They will deliver medical supplies and collect pathology samples, the territory's health department says.
Med schools need higher rural quotas to solve workforce crisis: AMA
The 'trickle out' theory of doctor distribution isn't working, it says.
‘We’re back to 2010 rebates’: GPs react to incentive cuts
Many doctors in outer metro areas say the change will impact the viability of their practices.
