Dr Cath Hester, RACGP Queensland Faculty Council Chair
Dr Cath Hester has been on the RACGP Queensland Council since 2017 and become the Chair in November 2023.
Find out more about Dr Cath Hester below
To connect with GPs who care as much as I do for our profession.
To promote the keystone importance of general practice in our healthcare system and to assist our members to feel proud to be GPs.
I wanted to contribute to a profession that cares for communities from within the communities themselves. I also love narratives – I found hospital medicine lacking because I always wanted to know what happened to my patients after the episode of care was complete. I love that in general practice the episode of care is never complete, even after death.
Setting up a brand-new clinic from scratch with my husband, Tony Bayliss. We wanted a practice to call home, a practice that embodied our ideals and worked efficiently. We’re proud to run a successful business that’s a properly nice place work whilst serving our community for over six years now, especially in the challenging environment of COVID-19 and the recent floods.
That we all can and should be positive advocates for our profession. That we all can support our colleagues, work to raise the profile of general practice to other organisations and government bodies, and promote the incredibly important work that GPs do every day.
Please don't tell the guys in the Climate and Environmental Medicine special interest group, but I'm a complete petrol head. I was born and raised in Ipswich, started driving aged 11 – our wedding car was an RT Charger and I drive with my RS3 permanently in dynamic mode.