GP clinics across Cairns can now recruit overseas trained doctors and bonded medical practitioners following a recommendation by an independent panel to change the city’s Distribution Priority Area status. Cairns is now classified as Distribution Priority Area following an application by three local clinics for an exceptional circumstances review. It is the first time any…
Far North Queenslanders will have easier access to doctors and shorter waiting times after the federal government today announced $62.2 million to fast track the National Rural Generalist Pathway program. The program will fund initiatives such as coordinated training for regional and rural generalists along with the expansion of the Rural Junior Doctor Training Innovation…
The Federal Government is continuing to deliver record hospital funding to the Cairns Hospital which is providing more doctors, more nurses and importantly more services for patients. Federal Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch categorically rejected Queensland Labor Health Minister Steven Miles’ claims today about current funding levels to the Cairns Hospital. “It is an undeniable fact…