Labor making it easier to attract GPs

09 February 2022

Three years ago the Morrison government took away the ability of Blue Mountains medical practices to attract GPs, when the entire mountains east of Blackheath was stripped of its priority status. I've been proud to announce that Labor will fix that and make it easier to attract more GPs by allowing the recruitment of overseas trained and bonded medical program doctors. If elected, Labor will designate the Katoomba-Springwood GP catchment, which is the whole of the Blue Mountains LGA, as a distribution priority area for GPs. It's a significant step towards helping our GPs survive, because right now they're under pressure like I've never seen. They were under pressure before the messy COVID vaccine rollout. A who