General practices are under increasing financial pressure, as funding fails to keep pace with the cost of providing services. As a result of the 2017–18 Federal Budget announcement to reindex the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), some MBS items, including bulk-billing incentive items and standard GP consultation items, are now being indexed. However, the level of indexation itself does not cover the increased costs that practices have experienced over the period of the MBS freeze, or the continuing increase in costs experienced by practices year on ...