Tag Archives: general practice

There is more to the GP super clinic story than you might have heard

November 11, 2009 – 1:24 pm

It’s been interesting to watch how the various media outlets have been reporting on a campaign by a group of GPs against super clinics, including a protest staged in western Sydney this week.
Many of the reports, whether in the local or the national press seemed to uncritically buy the GPs’ line that super clinics will [...]

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What future for general practice – the cry from a rural GP

September 3, 2009 – 7:21 pm

The current focus on primary health care reform has left GPs feeling confused, nervous and anxious, if this piece from rural GP David Monash is anything to go by. He writes:
“The elephant in the room that is not being spoken of or referred to in the current plethora of reports and indicated reforms in the [...]

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How to resuscitate primary health care

December 1, 2008 – 9:03 pm

Professor Stephen Leeder, Director of the Australian Health Policy Institute, writes:
The recent Crikey article raising serious questions about the future of primary care is timely in view of the problems facing general practice in Australia.
We need a national approach to general practice that invests five times the current level in it: to achieve best [...]

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