Sydney's health divide: pay GPs to go west

By Rachel Browne
August 19 2012 - 3:00am
Financial incentives could be used to attract GPs to western Sydney ...  Opposition Health spokesman Andrew McDonald.
Financial incentives could be used to attract GPs to western Sydney ... Opposition Health spokesman Andrew McDonald.
A spokesman for federal Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek said doctors willing to relocate to, and remain in, an outer metropolitan area were eligible for a one-off grant of $40,000.
A spokesman for federal Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek said doctors willing to relocate to, and remain in, an outer metropolitan area were eligible for a one-off grant of $40,000.
Blame game ... Jillian Skinner, NSW Health Minister blames current health problems on the previous Labor government.
Blame game ... Jillian Skinner, NSW Health Minister blames current health problems on the previous Labor government.

General practitioners willing to work in western Sydney should be given the same incentives as doctors lured to country towns - as much as $47,000 extra each year - to address the city's alarming health divide, councils and the medical profession say.

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