newsGP – ‘Scary’ co-op failure sets off ‘alarm bells’ for general practice – RACGP
News GPs are calling for widespread primary care funding reform after a not-for-profit bulk-billing co-operative servicing 30,000 patients went into voluntary administration. Pure bulk-billing clinics are becoming less and less sustainable. The National Health Co-operative (NHC), which runs eight not-for-profit bulk-billing clinics in the ACT, reportedly entered voluntary administrationdue toan insurmountable forecast deficit following the…
