Why GPs should expect more cash for ‘frequent flyer’ patients
Over the coming months GP practices in the ACT will test a pilot to better support patients at high risk of hospital admission.
There is a revolutionary vision for the future of general practice.
Yes, the specialty is cash-starved, withered by chronic workforce shortages, assailed by the spectre of pharmacists having a go at diagnosing and prescribing, and its financial viability threatened by the taxman.
But the vision is that all will change under the patient enrolment reforms where practices will be given funding to deal with ‘frequent flyer’ patients.
This is because it will allow general practice to prove to the pollies its economic utility — reducing hospital presentations and the billions that go with them.
