Out-of-hours unscheduled care hasn't suffered, in spite of what a vocal minority might think

RECENT correspondence in this newspaper and elsewhere has highlighted some of the significant challenges that delivering healthcare in remote and rural communities present to health service providers.

One of the greatest of these challenges is the delivery of out-of-hours unscheduled care.

Before looking at how we address these challenges, it is important to look back at the reasons why GPs opted to transfer responsibility for out-of-hours ca...