2026 RACGP Presidential Campaign Material
My full position on general practice funding, and what I will fight for as RACGP President. General practice gets short changed every year Australia needs a funding model that does not short-change general practice every financial year. It must properly index patient Medicare rebates, value longer and more complex consultations, and recognise the true cost...
The latest patient Medicare rebate indexation of just 2.6% once again fails to reflect the true cost of healthcare and leaves patients out of pocket or forces clinics to unceremoniously close. Remember, rebates are for the patient, who pay premiums through the Medicare levy. But the Government has rather successfully positioned it as how GPs...
© 2026 Dr Ramya Raman
