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Medical Practitioners; FTE per 100,000 of Population by Remoteness

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MC

IR

OR

R & VR

Figure 1.5. Medical practitioners, FTE per 100,000 population by remoteness, 2013. Source: AIHW, 2014. MC: Major cities; IR: Inner regional; OR: Outer regional; R & VR: Remote and very remote. Figure 1.5, comparing major cities with remote and very remote areas, illustrates that there was a FTE workforce with 168.9 less personnel per 100,000 (425.6/256.7) in remote and very remote areas. An important section of this workforce is the number of GPs, which also reduces with remoteness (AIHW, 2012), as shown in Table 1.7 and Figure 1.6 below. Table. 1.7 Number of General Practitioners by Remoteness Classification, 2012 (Source: AIHW, 2012)

Major Cities

Inner Regional

Outer Regional

Remote/ Very Remote

Number of GPs

18,170

4,826

2,331

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