Rebecca Davey, Practice Manager: The Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program is a massive change for our clinic. It's very important for the staff and it's very important to our patients. We've got a lot of farmers in this area. We are rural, a lot of struggling families financially. So now we can offer all of our patients bulk billed appointments.
Dr Jenny Eury, General Practitioner: It improves access to medical care and allows a great equity across the community.
Rebecca Davey, Practice Manager: In my opinion, it is one of the best things we've done in nearly 95 years of the clinic being running.
Courtney Addison, Registered Nurse: Feedback from our existing patients has been really positive. They’re more inclined to come back for that reminder and not grouping everything together in one consultation. So not saving things up to make it more affordable for them.
Peter, patient: Cost of living's got to be an issue for almost everybody, so to be able to go to the doctors and not have to worry about a cost has been great.
Rebecca Davey, Practice Manager: The benefits that the GPs have had since moving to bulk billing have been substantial. Their books are fully booked every day, and the financial benefit, earning more.
Dr Farzin Torabi, General Practitioner: For practices, it eases the admin job and it's now very smooth process, a very easy process.
Rebecca Davey, Practice Manager: Becoming a bulk billing clinic was extremely easy. It was a click of a couple of buttons. It was adding bank account details, putting up signage, and we were good to go.
Dr Jenny Eury, General Practitioner Bulk billing allows people, who might delay getting health care to be able to come and see a doctor, which hopefully will mean that we can do some good preventive medicine.
Peter, patient: If there were more bulk billing clinics, I think it'd be great.
Rebecca Davey, Practice Manager: For more information, visit the website.