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Barwon Division of General Practice

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Area Covered:
The Barwon Division covers an area of 44,132 square kilometres, with a distance of 300 kilometres from north to south. The towns included in the Division are Barraba, Bingara, Boggabri, Collarenebri, Gunnedah, Manilla, Moree, Mungindi, Narrabri, Warialda and Wee Waa.
 
Postcodes Covered:
2346, 2347, 2356, 2379, 2380, 2381, 2382, 2383, 2385, 2386, 2387, 2388, 2390, 2391, 2394, 2397, 2398, 2399, 2400, 2401, 2402, 2404, 2405, 2406, 2407, 2408, 2409, 2411, 2833
 
Phone: 02 6752 7196
 
Website: http://www.barwondgp.org.au
 
About:
The Barwon Division of General Practice is a small rural Division covering a large geographic area in Northwest NSW. The Division is a Company Limited by guarantee and a Board of 7 Directors oversees the strategic direction of the Division. The Board meets by teleconference every 2 months. The Division has a permanent staff of 10, CEO (1 FTE), Operations Manager (1 FTE), 4 Program Managers (2.8 FTE), Education & Support Officer (.8 FTE), Data Support Officer (.5 FTE) and 2 Dietitians (2 FTE employed under MAHS program).

Four casual nursing staff are situated in towns around the Division and provide immunisation advice and assistance with EPC care planning and health assessments. A casual dietitian works from Gunnedah under the MAHS program. The Division office is located in the central business district of Moree. The division contracts 11 private providers to supply Podiatry, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Clinical Psychology services to patients throughout the Division area.

The FTE GP: Population ratio is 1:1620 and currently higher in some of the towns. The Division activities centre around programs that are based on local need and current guidelines. The Division currently has 39 GPs living and working in the Division area, 38 are registered members, an increase of 7 since 2000-2001. 29 of the 39 GPs are full time, 3 of which are female. 10 GPs are part time, 7 of which are female.

The Division currently has 11 GP Registrars working from practices throughout the Division area and 8 Overseas Trained Doctors. The full time equivalent GP number is currently 32.5 with 8.8 FTE Registrars. There are 17 Medical Practices within the Division varying from solo medical practices in the one-doctor towns through to multi-doctor practices in towns with two or more practices.

The Division has always enjoyed close to 100% membership with many members active on local, state and national committees such as Area Health Service Board, the Rural Doctors Network, Rural Doctors Association of Australia and the Regional Training Consortium.

A wide disparity of services are available within the towns of the Barwon Division of General Practice, with some of the smaller towns providing excellent general practice and non procedural services to their community, and some of the larger towns providing quite significant, surgical, anaesthetic and obstetric services to the patients of their area. Some of these larger towns also provide a referral service for some of the smaller towns in the local area.

 
 
 
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