Keeping your team members engaged in your medical or allied health practice can be a real challenge, and when key people resign, it’s not just the time, effort and money invested in recruitment and training that hurts, there is a genuine connection with your key personnel and the disappointment that you were not able to offer them what they needed to stay. Employee turnover is a growing issue for medical practices and allied health clinics, so in this article, we discuss what you can do to engage

The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes No.2) Act 2024 (‘the Act’) has introduced some significant changes to the Fair Work Act that Australian medical practices should be aware of. Some of the notable amendments relate to casual employment, determining the ordinary meaning of employee and employer, sham contracting provisions, an employee’s ‘right to disconnect’ and unfair contract terms.

If you’re a medical practice owner or manager in Australia, we have no doubt you have been keeping a keen eye on developments in the payroll tax space. After all, there have been a lot of changes over the past few years. In this article, we explore the current position in South Australia (SA) and the circumstances in which medical practices are liable to pay payroll tax on payments made to contractor GPs.

As a medical practice business owner or leader, it is always interesting to take learnings
from other industries that are aligned with what you do in your own business. As lawyers for
medical practices, we have recently been engaged by a few different university in-house lawyers to update their Services Agreement for the General Practitioners (GPs) engaged to see on-campus students and staff. In the evolving landscape of healthcare provision, Universities are increasingly relying on Service Agreements with GPs, and these arrangements have proven to be beneficial for both universities and practitioners