Closure Notice Hobart Place GP
Dear Patient,
Hobart Place General Practice will be closing on 30 April 2023. Several of our doctors were planning to retire in the middle of the year and we have been unable to retain our GP registrar and the combined effect of this will make Hobart Place General Practice financially unviable. A lot of you will have read reports in the media in the last two years about how the erosion in value of the Medicare rebate has put pressure on general practice. This has certainly been true for the Interchange General Practice and its successor, Hobart Place General Practice, where we’ve found it increasingly difficult to practise the mixed billing model in general practice. Government policy about GP registrar placements has also meant that very few of the GP registrars who have trained with us have ended up staying with us. The focus of Interchange General Practice on disadvantaged populations has also meant that many GPs think that working at Hobart Place General Practice will also mean working with a lot of complex and challenging patients and so have avoided applying to work with us.
If you want to write to your local politicians about the closure of Hobart Place General Practice, here is a template for you to use and a list of local politicians. (Please See Below)
Of the doctors at Hobart Place General Practice, Dr Clara Tuck Meng Soo, Dr Yew Choy Cheong, Dr Mary Jane Micua, Dr Kate Molinari and Dr Lindsay Rodgers will be moving to our sister practice, East Canberra General Practice. https://www.eastcanberragp.com.au/ East Canberra General Practice is located at 1/25, Mustang Avenue, Canberra Airport next to Costco. There is easy road access to Majura Park where East Canberra General Practice is located and there is ample free parking in front of the practice. The telephone number at East Canberra General Practice is 02-6248 2600.
Dr Peter Tait and Dr Denise Kraus will retire when Hobart Place General Practice closes. Dr Cathy Schmidli will continue to work one session a week at East Canberra General Practice until the end of June 2023.
If your doctor is not on this list and you want to find out where they are moving to, please ask our friendly staff. All patient records will be moved to East Canberra General Practice and you can ask for your records to be transferred to another practice if that is your choice. (File transfer request form below)
We wish you all the best and hope to see you at East Canberra General Practice.
Kind Regards
Management
Hobart Place General Practice
21/03/2023
