00:00 I think the bottom line is that practices don't have the capacity to absorb this additional
00:05 payroll tax, so the cost of this measure is going to have to be passed on to patients.
00:11 And it's going to make access to general practice even harder, so there'll be more wait times,
00:16 it'll be harder to see the GP, hours may be reduced, we may not be able to continue to
00:21 have our nursing staff, which will mean less access when people need it most.
00:26 We already have difficulty attracting enough trainees into the training program, as in
00:31 nurturing future GPs.
00:33 So that's already a quite desperate situation in Canberra.
00:37 And this will further create financial instability in general practice, which will discourage
00:43 a lot of junior doctors coming into general practice and choosing general practice as
00:48 a future career.
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