❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks details on payments and subsidies made to Dr. Barney McCallum, a Kalgoorlie-Boulder obstetrician, during the 2002/2003 financial year, including VMP payments, on-call funding, and medical indemnity insurance subsidies. The answer provides specific figures for on-call funding, rural allowances, travel expenses, and medical indemnity assistance.
AnsweredQoN 1749Legislative Assembly
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(1) Will the Minister advise the total of the VMP payments made to Kalgoorlie-Boulder based Obstetrician Dr Barney McCallum for services rendered during the 2002/2003 financial year?
(2) Will the Minister advise the total amount of on call funding provided to Dr Barney McCallum for the financial year ended 30 June 2003?
(3) Will the Minister advise the nature and total amount of any other payments or subsidies that were made by the State Government to Dr Barney McCallum for the financial year ending 30 June 2003?
(4) Will the Minister advise if the State Government subsidised Dr Barney McCallum's private or public medical indemnity insurance for the financial year ending 30 June 2003?
(5) If so, will the Minister advise the nature and amount of that subsidy?
(2) Will the Minister advise the total amount of on call funding provided to Dr Barney McCallum for the financial year ended 30 June 2003?
(3) Will the Minister advise the nature and total amount of any other payments or subsidies that were made by the State Government to Dr Barney McCallum for the financial year ending 30 June 2003?
(4) Will the Minister advise if the State Government subsidised Dr Barney McCallum's private or public medical indemnity insurance for the financial year ending 30 June 2003?
(5) If so, will the Minister advise the nature and amount of that subsidy?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
9 September 2003
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
28 days
(2) $38,354.80 inclusive of GST. (3) $38,790.01 inclusive of GST for the Rural Specialist Allowance, plus; $40,556.51 inclusive of GST for the Rural Incentive Allowance, and; $4,525.44 inclusive of GST for Travel to Esperance. (4) Medical Indemnity premiums are determined on the level of the practitioner’s total billings for all work whether they be private and/or public patients. (5) $30,503.00 inclusive of GST. For the purpose of maintaining rural obstetric and procedural services for public patients in the country, the Government through the WA Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine provides financial assistance to rural GP obstetricians and proceduralists and rural specialist obstetricians/gynaecologists to assist with the cost of their annual medical indemnity insurance premiums.
(3) $38,790.01 inclusive of GST for the Rural Specialist Allowance, plus; $40,556.51 inclusive of GST for the Rural Incentive Allowance, and; $4,525.44 inclusive of GST for Travel to Esperance. (4) Medical Indemnity premiums are determined on the level of the practitioner’s total billings for all work whether they be private and/or public patients. (5) $30,503.00 inclusive of GST. For the purpose of maintaining rural obstetric and procedural services for public patients in the country, the Government through the WA Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine provides financial assistance to rural GP obstetricians and proceduralists and rural specialist obstetricians/gynaecologists to assist with the cost of their annual medical indemnity insurance premiums.
(4) Medical Indemnity premiums are determined on the level of the practitioner’s total billings for all work whether they be private and/or public patients. (5) $30,503.00 inclusive of GST. For the purpose of maintaining rural obstetric and procedural services for public patients in the country, the Government through the WA Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine provides financial assistance to rural GP obstetricians and proceduralists and rural specialist obstetricians/gynaecologists to assist with the cost of their annual medical indemnity insurance premiums.
(5) $30,503.00 inclusive of GST. For the purpose of maintaining rural obstetric and procedural services for public patients in the country, the Government through the WA Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine provides financial assistance to rural GP obstetricians and proceduralists and rural specialist obstetricians/gynaecologists to assist with the cost of their annual medical indemnity insurance premiums.
(3) $38,790.01 inclusive of GST for the Rural Specialist Allowance, plus; $40,556.51 inclusive of GST for the Rural Incentive Allowance, and; $4,525.44 inclusive of GST for Travel to Esperance. (4) Medical Indemnity premiums are determined on the level of the practitioner’s total billings for all work whether they be private and/or public patients. (5) $30,503.00 inclusive of GST. For the purpose of maintaining rural obstetric and procedural services for public patients in the country, the Government through the WA Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine provides financial assistance to rural GP obstetricians and proceduralists and rural specialist obstetricians/gynaecologists to assist with the cost of their annual medical indemnity insurance premiums.
(4) Medical Indemnity premiums are determined on the level of the practitioner’s total billings for all work whether they be private and/or public patients. (5) $30,503.00 inclusive of GST. For the purpose of maintaining rural obstetric and procedural services for public patients in the country, the Government through the WA Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine provides financial assistance to rural GP obstetricians and proceduralists and rural specialist obstetricians/gynaecologists to assist with the cost of their annual medical indemnity insurance premiums.
(5) $30,503.00 inclusive of GST. For the purpose of maintaining rural obstetric and procedural services for public patients in the country, the Government through the WA Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine provides financial assistance to rural GP obstetricians and proceduralists and rural specialist obstetricians/gynaecologists to assist with the cost of their annual medical indemnity insurance premiums.
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