Australia’s New Health Crisis – Too Many Doctors

It is taken as given within Australia's health bureacracy there there is a shortage of General Practitioners (GPs). According to a new report from the Monash Centre for Population and Urban Research, this view is incorrect. As a result of measures to encourage the employment of Intermational Medical Graduates (IMGs) and to expand the number of domestic medical graduates, Australia is now awash with doctors. This shows up in statistics indicating a sharp improvement in the ratio of doctors to population throughout Australia and record high levels of bulk billing for GP services. Click here to download the report, Australia's New Health Crisis - Too Many Doctors