General practice: who’s paying the piper?

Pegram, Robert W

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06936.x

There are three points of conflict in how general practitioners receive income that are, I believe, at the centre of the internally inconsistent and often confused position in which we find ourselves.

Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, Adelaide, SA.

Correspondence:

Competing interests:

I am currently a part-time, contracted, percentage-of-fees-generated paid GP, as well as a salaried health service manager (having sampled full fee-for-service remuneration as a practice principal, salaried employment and mixed arrangements).

1. Hunter Urban Division of General Practice website. Available at: http://www.hudgp.org.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=programs&fusesubaction=article&documentID=30&articleID=70 (accessed June 2005).
2. Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Requirements for general practitioner referral of patients for focussed psychological strategies. Available at: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/mentalhealth-boimhc-require.htm (accessed June 2005).

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