7NEWS: Sapphire City: The rural NSW town coughing up $180,000 to fix an ailing health system
town is suffering such a shortage of trained medical staff, its council is offering $180,000 in incentives to attract more doctors.
“Two placements have already been allocated,” Inverell Shire Council’s chief financial officer told a council meeting about the program in June.While the GPs will be employed and paid by local medical practices, each will be able to claim up to $30,000 in accommodation and transport expenses under the council policy which was approved last month.
“The shortage of doctors based in Inverell is well known and continues to worsen,” Inverell Shire Council said. “These conditions exacerbate problems attracting new GPs into Inverell as a rural tenure can be viewed as less favourable to regional and metro roles.”
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