This program will offer a wider range of services to regional communities, by incorporating additional activities such as pathology and psychology, radiology and pharmaceuticals in practices managed by private providers, divisions of general practice, or if needed, by local government. The medical staff may become employees paid a suitable salary, and thus avoid many of the burdens that make regional medicine less attractive. The plethora of complex programs designed to provide incentives for doctors to take up regional practice lower their effectiveness, and skew services against regional areas in favour of outer metropolitan areas.
positive towards the welfare state, e.g. health care, pensions or social housing