$130,000 salaries for registrars the new normal? Five states now trialling employment of GP trainees
A Queensland pilot starts this month.
GP registrars will receive salaries of $130,000 or more under Queensland’s four-year trial of the single-employer model.
It means the Federal Government is now funding salaries for 315 RACGP and ACRRM training posts across Australia, in every state bar WA.
Queensland has filled 14 of its 60 salaried posts so far, while 44 of NSW’s 80 positions are filled, state health officials say.
RACGP Queensland chair Dr Cathryn Hester backs the single-employer model, where one health service employs the registrar across their rotations, because it can “lower the barrier of entry”.
