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Rachael Ward

Leading GP fears for profession's future

Nicole Higgins says general practice in Australia is undervalued and underfunded. (JONO SEARLE) (AAP)

General practice will cease to exist unless there's a drastic overhaul of frontline medical services, the new head of Australia's peak body for GPs warns.

Incoming Royal Australian College of General Practitioners president Nicole Higgins says she will spend her next two years advocating for dramatic change, with the organisation's 40,000 members "struggling" due to diminished funding and workforce shortages.

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