UGPA

United General Practice Australia (UGPA) is comprised of six medical organisations working together to address issues in a number of key health policy areas, which General Practitioners across Australia feel need urgent action or they will adversely affect the health of their patients.

The members of UGPA are:

  • Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
  • Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine (ACRRM)
  • Australian Medical Association (AMA)
  • General Practice Registrars Australia (GPRA)
  • Australian General Practice Network (AGPN)
  • Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA)

In October 2008, when UGPA was formed, the group identified a number of critical steps that are needed to maintain Australia’s world-leading primary healthcare system. These included:

  • Investing in what works – GP practices as the hub of primary care
  • Recognising and rewarding high quality primary healthcare
  • Fixing the shortage of GPs and other healthcare workers
  • National registration and accreditation that safeguard the standards of medical practice.

Click through for more detail about these issues and to read the press release issued when UGPA was formed.

See the UGPA Media Releases page to find out about issues UGPA is currently addressing.

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