
The General Practitioner Anaesthetists Locum Scheme (GPALS) is a locum service for General Practitioner anaesthetists (GPA) located throughout rural and remote Australia. Established in 2009, GPALS is unique in that it specialises in providing workforce support to these medical practitioners so they may more readily access personal and professional leave.
GPALS fulfils GP anaesthetist locum placement requests anywhere in rural and remote Australia.
Hosts
The key benefits in a Host using GPALS are that the Scheme:
1. Has no administrative fees
2. Offers generous subsidies including:
3. Eligibility to access the subsidies may be possible even when the GP Anaesthetist locum is arranged privately.
Locums
The key benefits in being a GPALS Locum are that the Scheme:
1. Subsidies up to $500 per placement for travel time.
2. Provides support on practice and transition issues, should it be needed, through the GPALS medical adviser.
The GP Anaesthetists' Locum Scheme (GPALS) is funded by the Australian Government.