Summary
Date: 5 February 2016
The RACGP's 2016-17 pre-budget submission presents four strategies for investing in patient healthcare through better supporting general practice.
Key among the four strategies is reversing the freeze on MBS indexation.
The submission also emphasises the need to prioritise general practice research, while outlining the first steps to implementing the patient centred medical home and proposing the creation of additional community training places.