2020

The ANZ - Melbourne Institute Health Sector Report: The Impact of COVID-19 on GPs and non-GP Specialists in Private Practice was released on 16 July 2020

Media Release

• How are Australia’s Doctors Faring During Covid-19? Pursuit, The University of Melbourne, 16 July 2020.

Media Coverage:

• Telehealth bulk-billing requirement hits GP incomes. Australian Doctor, 16 July 2020.
• GPs count cost of pandemic-driven telehealth surge. The Australian, 16 July 2020.
• Radio interview with Professor Anthony Scott, Stress of stop-gap services like telehealth revealed as GPs and patients grapple with coronavirus, ABC Radio Sydney, 17 July 2020.
• COVID-19 and medical workforce: report shows loss of income and potential new ways of working, Mirage News, 18 July 2020.
• Dial a doctor: pandemic pressures healthcare system, ANZ bluenotes, 21 July 2020.
• Financial stress and lack of PPE affecting GPs’ mental health, newsGP, 22 July 2020.

Other Media Coverage:

• Community doctor surgeries becoming unviable as Medicare funding falls behind inflation, Courier-Mail, 23 September 2020.
• Clinics on life support as GP wages rise $1 in five years, Fraser Coast Chronicle, 23 September 2020.