For doctors
- 150 recruitment grants to make Tasmania competitive with the mainland and attract and retain a permanent workforce.
- 100 x $10,000 grants for doctors in urban areas.
- 50 x $20,000 grants for doctors in rural and regional communities.
- Our government-run TassieDoc clinic that let doctors focus on practicing medicine without having to worry about running a business.
Quotes attributable to RACGP Deputy Chair Dr Tim Jones:
"We see it as very attractive to our emerging workforce. We are training a record number of GPs here in Tasmania, but those are doctors who do not have business experience, who are not clinic owners, and we think that working under this model is going to enable them to do what they do best - which is focus on the care of patients in the community.
"We have seen from interstate initiatives that have developed some of these models in the past that they have worked very well to both recruit and retain doctors - and over that time led to a decrease in hospital costs, which is absolutely what we need to see in this state as well.
Dean Winter MP
Labor Leader
Ella Haddad MP
Shadow Minister for Health
