As per recent reports, it has been revealed that the Rural Doctors Association is urging the Federal Government for reinstating plenty of perk ups which played a major role in supporting a large number of after-hours doctors all over the region.

As per claims laid by the association, the incentives will be replaced by a nationwide after-hours hotline. But, Paul Mara, the President of the Association, has claimed that a whole new data has demonstrated that a national GP hotline will prove less cost-effective as compared to the facility of providing “in-person” after-hours services.

While expressing his opinion regarding the entire issue of funding required for staying in regional areas, he claimed that, “One of the practices in South Australia, for example, is going to lose $80,000 a year when the Government removes these after-hours services, now what kind of signal does this send the doctors in those practices”.

As per Dr. Mara, the hotline may turn out to be somewhat successful in metropolitan regions, but it can certainly not yield desirable effect in regional areas.

In this regard, the peak lobby of doctors has summoned up each and every GP and medical specialist from rural regions for voicing their thoughts related to paying thousands of dollars on a yearly basis in context to additional incentives with the intent of encouraging more and more professionals to show their commitment towards country practice, along with a warning that an "urgent intervention" is strictly needed in order to combat the extensive workforce disaster.

The Australian Medical Association, by the means of a submission offered to an inquest initialized by the Senate over the rural health workforce, has urged for called for a fresh system for rural isolation payments for enhancing the monetary incentives being provided to GPs of rural regions at present.