Entries by Richard Hart

Cubiko Ownership

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On 28 May 2025 the Australian GP Alliance (AGPA)  wrote to members advising it had come to our attention that that the medical data analytics  application Cubiko is ultimately majority owned by medical corporate Sonic Holdings.

The majority ownership by Sonic was believed to have occurred approximately 12 months earlier. The Cubiko website currently states that this controlling interest occurred in April 2023.

Sonic Holdings are a major operator in the Australian Healthcare Sector with approximately 35% of the pathology services. Their website states that they have over 200 GP clinics trading as Sonic HealthPlus, Australian Skin Cancer Clinics and […]

AGPA Welcomes Decision on Payroll Tax

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Media Release Australian General Practice Alliance (AGPA) Welcomes Decision on Payroll Tax

22/05/2024

The Australian General Practice Alliance (AGPA) Deputy Chair Dr Mukesh Haikerwal AC and Director Dr Sarah Lewis today welcomed the decision by the Victorian Government to exempt all Victorian General Practice businesses from any outstanding or future assessment issued for Payroll Tax on payments to contractor GPs for the period up to 30 June 2024, and a further 12-month exemption from Payroll Tax for payments to contractor GPs, through to 30 June 2025. This will […]

AGPA Webinar: Zero to 140K Visits in 10 years

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AGPA Webinar Thursday 13 June 2024, 7:30pm AEST 7:00 pm SA, 5:30 pm WA

 

Zero to 140K Visits in 10 Years Speaker: Dr John Deery – YourGPCanberra

Since opening their first clinic just over 10 years ago John and Mel Deery have trialed and applied a number business management approaches to their Canberra Practice.
They now have over 40 GPs working over three sites and are the largest Principal -led Practice in Canberra recording over 120,000 patient visits per year.

John will discuss what he sees as being the key aspects that have […]

AGPA at Cairns RACGP Practice Owners Conference

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The AGPA will be present at the upcoming RACGP Practice Owners Conference at the Cairns Exhibition Centre  24 & 25 May 2024.

A number of Directors will be present so this will be a great opportunity to catch up and discuss the issues that are important to you as a Practice Owner and what the AGPA can do to help.

See you at Stand 1

Walk-in Clinic Budget Funding Will Not Significantly Ease Primary Care Access Crisis

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Media Release

Australian General Practice Alliance (AGPA) Warns Walk-in Clinic Budget Funding Will Not Significantly Ease Primary Care Access Crisis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

13/05/2024

AGPA Deputy Chair Dr Mukesh Haikerwal AC said today the increased funding for walk-in primary care in tomorrow’s budget will fail to address the biggest issue in care delivery, the threat of closure faced by hundreds of GP clinics across Australia.

 

Dr Haikerwal said unless Federal and State Governments urgently addressed the issue of payroll tax levied on GP clinics, investment in […]

Payroll Tax Update

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The payroll tax campaign continues with a joint campaign with  AGPA, RACGP and PCBC  very active in Victoria.

The AGPA leads are Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, AGPA Deputy Chair and Dr Sarah Lewis, AGPA Board Member.

RACGP survey data is now confirming the predictions of the impact of payroll tax with only 3% of Practices considering that they would be able to absorb the tax and 78% of Practices  (95% of Victorian Practices) indicating they would need to raise fees.  The implications of this for the provision of primary healthcare

Since November the joint campaign has

  • submitted revised scenarios for […]

ACCC opposes Australian Clinical Labs’ proposed acquisition of Healius

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The Australian GP Alliance made a submission and engaged in a number of discussions with the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) regarding our concerns with the Australian Clinical Lab’s  proposed acquisition of Healius. AGPA’s concerns centered around the potential for service quality reduction and the reduction of competition for collection centre rentals. This has the potential to impact on a tender process to establish market rents, with a resultant reduction in the ability to establish rental rate that is higher the assessed value of the property.

On 15 December 2023 the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced that […]

Payroll Tax – Administrative Controls

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Webinar

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 7:30pm AEDT

6:30 pm Queensland, 7:00 pm SA, 4:30 pm WA

AGPA Webinar Payroll Tax – Administrative Controls

Speakers

Paul Copeland, Director, William Buck

Ben Ryan, Senior Associate, Avant Law

 

Victoria, NSW, ACT, Queensland and South Australia are all applying precedents which allow them to charge payroll tax on medical professional fees paid to independent GPs under conventional […]