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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos and Melissa Davey

Rural Victorian town left without bulk-billing doctor after clinic closes doors

Nurse talking with patients in waiting room
Expanded telehealth and e-prescription services and pop-up primary care clinics are being considered after Mildura’s bulk-billing clinic closed. Photograph: Dean Mitchell/Getty Images

About 15,000 patients in and around the rural city of Mildura in Victoria’s north-west have been left without a bulk-billing doctor and are struggling to access their medical records.

The Tristar medical group, which owns the Mildura clinic, went into voluntary administration in May, and after the sale of the clinic to another medical group fell through earlier in August, the clinic has closed its doors.

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