$500k salaries and rent-free practices on offer in towns desperate for a GP

Towns are taking years to find permanent doctors and have had to step up their incentives
Sarah Simpkins
Dr Odunayo Johnson Alakaye.

In a specialty filled with intractable problems, the one Dr Rob Bond had to grapple with was how to lure solo GPs to small rural towns.

A solo GP himself in Lockhart, a NSW town with a population of around 1000, the local council asked Dr Bond to open GP services in Culcairn, 75km away.