BY DAKOTA TAIT
The Federal Government has changed the rules for recruiting doctors across the Hunter, in hopes to make it easier to get more GPs into the region.
The Distribution Priority Areas have been updated in more than 700 areas across the country, in hopes to cure the GP shortfall.
International medical graduates and overseas trained doctors are only able to access Medicare if they work in a priority area.
The change applies to the Kurri Kurri – Cessnock, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Maitland, Morisset – Cooranbong, Toukley – Budgewoi, Cessnock, Cessnock Region, and Nelson Bay catchment areas.
