This chair costs you
$548 a day.
Every day a GP room sits empty, your practice loses billings, incentives and patients — and no one ever sends you the bill. Here’s the real number.
- $0
- placement fees
- Every
- GP type
- 1 price
- unlimited GPs
No single invoice ever lands on your desk for this. It arrives quietly, in four separate ways, every year the room sits empty.
- Billings you’d have kept$150,000
- Government incentives tied to the doctor$18,000
- Allied health & pathology tenancies$20,000
- Patients who move on, and must be won back$12,000
Spending nothing to fill it isn’t a saving. It’s the most expensive option of all.
Work out what your own empty chairs are costing — two minutes, and a one-page PDF you can put in front of whoever signs.
Fill the chair for a fraction of what an empty one costs.
Heart Bridge Health is a direct marketplace. Search GPs already in Australia and overseas-trained doctors looking to relocate here, see match, credentials and availability up front, and reach out yourself — no agency, no middleman, no fee on the outcome.
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Unlimited GPs, one flat price. $10,000 a year per clinic — or $850 a month — across locum, permanent, telehealth, occupational health and skin.
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No commission, no clauses. No per-shift fee, no ownership clauses. The relationship belongs to you from the first message.
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Pay nothing until they start. Join before 1 May 2027 and the licence sits in escrow until your first doctor actually commences.
“We had a room sitting empty for four months before we did the maths. The number was frightening — and it changed how fast we moved.”
Two minutes. Then you’ll know.
Open the calculator and see what your empty chairs cost — in your figures, not ours — or reply and we’ll run your numbers with you.
What an empty GP chair costs a clinic
An unfilled GP position is one of the most expensive things a practice can carry, precisely because no one sends an invoice for it. Here is what an empty GP chair costs an Australian clinic each year — and how to work out your own figure in about two minutes.
Common questions
- How much does an empty GP chair cost a clinic per year?
- A full GP chair is commonly worth around $200,000 a year to a practice once you add up billings, government incentives, the allied health and pathology tenancies a busy practice can support, and patient retention — roughly $548 a day while the chair sits empty. The calculator lets you set your own figure.
- Why is leaving a GP room empty so expensive?
- Because the loss compounds. Patients who cannot get in move to another clinic and take their families and referrals with them, so the cost keeps running long after the room is filled. Finding a doctor is a one-off; an empty chair bleeds every week.
- How do I work out what an empty chair costs my practice?
- Use the free Heart Bridge Health cost calculator. Enter your own numbers — billings, incentives, tenancy income and patient value — and it works out the annual cost of each unfilled chair, then shows how it compares to filling it for $10,000.