PHAR4823 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Medicare Australia, General Medical Services, Locum
23 Jul 2018
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2014: > 29,000 gps in australia (>35% img), >2,800 practices in nsw. Solo (9%), small (2-4) (23%), mid size (5-9) (42%), large (>9) (26%) 6% of general practices are provided by corporate providers (but make up 12% of medicare billings claimed: 3 main players: primary health care, sonic healthcare (ipn) and healthscope. Increased attraction of career locum / employed gp vs. 2007 - 44% working in practices >5 gps, now 68% 2007 - 21% working in solo, now 9% Gps >55 years: more gps > 60 are in solo vs. group practices. Most frequent point of access to australian health care system. At least 85% australians had one or more medicare paid gp item services paid. Increasing age of average attendee with increased number of chronic disease management and multimorbidity in most recent beach report (2014) Gps manage an average of 1. 6 problems per encounter (cid:0)over 60% have a health care home .
