Health changes hurt bush

Kim Chappell
Updated September 23 2015 - 6:00pm, first published September 28 2014 - 4:00am
Rural doctors are concerned the general practitioner co-payment plan will affect the livelihoods of rural GPS and the patronage of bush health care clinics.
Rural doctors are concerned the general practitioner co-payment plan will affect the livelihoods of rural GPS and the patronage of bush health care clinics.

FEARS are building in regional and medical communities about the long-term impact of the federal government’s planned general practitioner (GP) co-payment on regional health services, which are already severely stretched.

Kim Chappell

Editor of Farming Small Areas.

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