Consultation on the Australian government’s draft Primary Care 10-year Plan
Primary care needs to be recognised as the cornerstone of our health care system, and reforms implemented so that medical students and graduates can experience and envisage themselves in a rewarding and supported general practice career. Embedding training within the model of primary care, increasing the number of quality student placements, growing the GP academic and GP-researcher workforce, and ensuring we properly support the health needs of GPs themselves, are some of the key elements that must be prioritised to ensure we produce the future general practice workforce Australia needs.