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Health
Jacob Shteyman

A country jackpot: cash incentive to lure GPs out bush

Cash incentives are being used to lure GPs to work in regional South Australia. (Alan Porritt/AAP PHOTOS)

Doctors will be eligible for tens of thousands of dollars in cash incentives if they move out bush in a bid to plug chronic GP shortages in the regions.

A $10,000 one-off payment will be offered to doctors who move to 32 country towns in South Australia, including Renmark on the River Murray and the wine country town of Clare, to set up practice or work in a hospital.

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