BEACH - Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health: a continuous national study of general practice activity
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2003.27.68Keywords:
general practice, surveillance, BEACH - Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health, monitoringAbstract
General practice is recognised as the first port of call for most patients in the Australian healthcare system with GPs performing a gatekeeper role. There are more than 17,000 vocationally registered general practitioners in Australia and about 1,500 registrars currently training or one GP per 974 persons. Almost all of us (82%) attend a GP at least once during any given year. GPs provide by far the majority of the 100 million non-specialist services to the population that are paid by Medicare, at an average rate of 5.4 per person.
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