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Report Confirms Key Role of GPs in Primary Health Care
January 30, 2008 at 6:04 PM
General Health News
Conducted by the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program, the national survey of 100,000 GP encounters reported that there were more than 100 million items of patient service delivered by Australias GPs in 2006-07.
Dr Capolingua said the report backs the AMAs recent call for greater Government support for our dedicated and hardworking GP workforce.
When Australians get sick they want to see their local GP, Dr Capolingua said.
GPs are uniquely skilled to provide holistic care for patients. Australians deserve to continue to receive quality health care from General Practice. Instead, we are seeing more and more attempts to promote lesser-trained and lesser-skilled substitutes for GPs.
We have to put an end to this health policy laziness.
All Australian governments must commit to providing incentives and better training opportunities to attract more local medical students into General Practice and to keep our ageing GP population in the workforce longer to train the next generation of GPs.
With the Australian Health Care Agreements (AHCAs) being finalised this year and COAG meetings of all Labor governments, there has been no better opportunity for some time to achieve responsible forward-looking national health solutions.
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