While GPs in the Western Plains might be few and far between, access to bulk billed appointments in rural and remote Australia is the highest across Australia.
The success of tripled bulk-billing rates means that more GPs can afford to stick around.
When the Federal government announced late last year that the incentive for general practitioners to bulk bill would triple for some patients, it rang a bell for GP clinics in areas like ours where access to bulk billed medical care is common…