Forty-seven years in one suburb — and a room open in it.
A privately owned practice with a patient base waiting for a full-time GP. Private billing, 15-minute appointments, your own room, four nurses on the floor — and a principal who owns the place rather than reports to it.
Permanent, full scope, start when you can. 65% of billings, or $175 an hour minimum for your first three months — whichever is higher — so the settling-in period is not yours to carry alone.
- 47 years
- In one suburb
- ~11,000
- Active patients
- $175/hr
- Minimum, 3 months
- 65%
- Of billings
- Private
- Billing
- ASAP
- Start date
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“Our vision is to provide sustainable, long-term excellence in General Practice, customer service and workplace culture — creating a practice where our GPs feel supported and valued, our team is proud to work, and our patients receive exceptional care for generations to come.”
The word doing the work there is sustainable. It is what a practice says when it has been in one place for forty-seven years and intends to be there for another forty-seven — and it is a different sentence from the one a clinic writes when it is trying to fill a room by Friday.
What an ordinary Tuesday actually looks like.
Every listing in the country promises a supportive team and an established patient base. This is what those words look like once someone puts numbers to them.
Forty-seven years in the same community
The same doors have been open in Morningside since the late seventies, privately owned and operated the whole time. Four decades of families who have never gone anywhere else — grandparents, parents and children on the same books.
A patient base waiting for a full-time GP
Just under 11,000 active patients, and about 1,100 seen across the practice in a week on 15-minute appointments. Most of the GPs here work part-time, so the practice manager’s own words are that there is a patient base waiting for a full-time GP. Nobody is promising your book fills on day one — but you are not starting from nothing either.
Private billing, in a catchment that can afford it
The practice bills privately. The postcode’s median household income runs about 39% above the national figure, and the population skews working-age — which is the difference between a private billing model that works and one that argues with itself.
Your own room, and four nurses on the floor
A consulting room is provided, and up to four nurses work the floor each day — roughly one nurse to every three doctors. A chronic disease management nurse four days a week, MOCA certified. A dedicated wound nurse. A dedicated cannulation nurse, which is what makes an iron infusion list practical rather than theoretical.
Independent, not corporate
Privately owned and operated, with a principal GP who owns the clinic and a practice manager on the ground. Decisions get made in the building rather than by a head office two states away with a throughput target.
100% of receipts, then one weekly invoice
The practice has moved to the structure most contractor GPs now want: every dollar you bill is paid to you, and the practice invoices you a service fee once a week. Nothing is withheld and netted off at the end of the month. It is the payroll-tax-clean arrangement, and it is already in place rather than promised.
Why private billing works in this postcode.
A private billing practice lives or dies on who lives within a few kilometres of its door. Here is who lives within a few kilometres of this one.
11,755
Living in Morningside
Up 12.2% since 2016
34
Median age in 4170
National median is 38
72.4%
Aged 15 to 64
Against 64.6% nationally
$2,426
Median weekly household income
39% above the national figure
A young, working-age, high-income catchment that grew 14% in five years. In private billing terms that is the difference between a gap fee that works and one that argues with itself every consult. Source: ABS Census 2021, postcode 4170.
65% of billings — and a floor underneath it.
A percentage on its own leaves a new doctor carrying the settling-in period alone. Here there is a minimum underneath it for the first three months.
65%, or $175 an hour — whichever is higher
You are paid 65% of what you bill, with a minimum of $175 an hour for your first three months underneath it. Whichever of the two comes out higher is what you are paid. After three months the percentage stands on its own. The room is open now, and they would take you tomorrow.
- Private billing, in a catchment that can afford it
- 100% of receipts paid to you, service fee invoiced weekly
- A patient base waiting for a full-time GP
- Relocation or sign-on contribution open to discussion
100% of receipts, then one weekly invoice
Every dollar you bill is paid to you, and the practice invoices you a service fee once a week. Nothing is withheld at source and reconciled later. It is the payroll-tax-clean arrangement most contractor GPs are now asking for, and it is already how this practice runs rather than something they intend to move to.
Most of the GPs here work part-time, which is why the practice is looking for a full-time doctor — and why there is a patient base already waiting for one.
Ask about the arrangement
Seven kilometres from the city, on a line that runs to South Bank one way and the bay the other.
Morningside, in Brisbane's inner east — the Story Bridge and the CBD on one side of it, Moreton Bay on the other.
Full scope — and skin, with an open door about it.
Most listings offer you a special interest in the abstract, once you have proved yourself. This one has a dedicated skin GP already in the building — and a conversation you can actually have.
Skin, without the usual hand-waving
Every listing says “special interests welcome”. Most mean nothing by it — you arrive, and there is nobody doing the work and nobody to ask.
Here there is a dedicated skin GP in the building, already doing it. What happens next is a conversation, not a package: the practice is open to discussing shadowing and support for a GP who wants to build that scope. Ask early, ask exactly what it would look like, and you will get a straight answer either way.
That is a smaller promise than most ads make. It is also one you can hold them to.
Service lines the practice supports
Full-scope general practice
The core of the role. Family medicine across every age on 15-minute appointments, with the same patients coming back to you — which is what forty-seven years in one suburb buys.
Skin — and a conversation worth having
There is a dedicated skin GP on site, and the practice is open to discussing skin cancer shadowing and support for a doctor who wants to build that scope. It is a conversation to have with them directly rather than a programme already written down, so ask early and ask specifically.
Women’s health
A standing service line here, in a catchment full of young families and women of working age, alongside family planning, menopause and antenatal shared care.
Procedural and chronic disease work
Iron infusions with a dedicated cannulation nurse, minor procedures, ear suction, spirometry and ABI, and chronic disease management resourced by a nurse four days a week.
Integrated and allied health
Podiatry, dietetics, ENT, women’s health physiotherapy and echocardiography on site or visiting, so the referrals that usually leave the building can stay in it.
Assessments and occupational work
Health assessments, preventive health and screening, immunisation and travel medicine, and pre-employment, commercial driver, WorkCover and insurance medicals if that is work you want on your list.
Want to know if they'd support your special interest?
Ask. Tell us on the form what you want to build — skin, women's health, chronic disease, something else entirely — and we will put the question straight to the practice and come back to you with their answer, before you commit to anything.
Ask about my special interestWho this role works for — and who it doesn’t.
Said in full, up front. A role you can’t bill from is not a role, however good the rest of it reads.
FRACGP, vocationally registered
Practise independently from day one. This is the case the role is written for, and the practice has said it plainly rather than leaving it vague.
Already able to work in Australia
You need the unrestricted right to work here already. The practice does not sponsor visas and has not asked us to find someone who needs one.
Not restricted to a DPA
Morningside is Modified Monash 1 and is not a District of Workforce Shortage, so a doctor inside the moratorium cannot bill Medicare from this room.
And if this room isn’t yours, another one is
Straight up: this one needs a vocationally registered Fellow. No supervision, no fellowship pathway, no visa sponsorship — and Morningside carries no DPA or moratorium relief. If that rules you out, it rules out this room, not your search. The same free app carries the DPA, rural and supervised roles that do fit you, and checks every one of them against your own registration before you apply. Leave your details anyway and we will point you at them.
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Find out where I standEverything the practice has actually committed to.
A stated figure beats “competitive” — you cannot compare a blank against three other practices.
- 65% of billings, or $175 an hour minimum for three months — whichever is higher
- 100% of receipts paid to you, service fee invoiced weekly
- Your own consulting room, provided
- Up to four nurses on the floor daily, about one to every three doctors
- A CDM nurse four days a week, MOCA certified
- Dedicated wound care and cannulation nurses
- Complimentary undercover parking
- Podiatry, dietetics, ENT, women’s health physio and echo on site or visiting
- Best Practice software
- Sessions at your discretion — no nights, and weekends only if you want them
- Full-scope general practice, private billing, 15-minute appointments
- Relocation or sign-on contribution open to discussion
- Start as soon as you can
Inner-east Brisbane, on a line that goes everywhere.
Morningside sits on the Cleveland railway line — which turns out to be one of the more useful lines in the city to live on.
Seven kilometres from the CBD
Morningside sits in Brisbane’s inner east, a little over seven kilometres from the city. The train into Central runs under twenty minutes, and for most of the suburb the station is a walk rather than a drive.
Twelve minutes to South Bank
South Bank station is on the same line, no changes — twelve minutes from the local platform to the lagoon, the galleries and the riverside. So is the airport, domestic and international, which matters more than people expect.
And the same line runs to the bay
Ride it the other way and it ends at the water — Cleveland and Moreton Bay, about forty minutes out. A metro practice on a line that reaches the city one way and the coast the other.
Why this one is worth a look
Forty-seven years in one suburb is the one thing a new practice cannot offer you.
Just under 11,000 active patients, most of the GPs here part-time, and a patient base waiting for a full-time doctor. No corporate owner setting your throughput from another state. A privately owned practice in a young, high-income catchment seven kilometres from the CBD — with a minimum under your income for the first three months and the room available now.
No CV, no recruiter, no fee — ever.
A recruitment agency charges a placement fee, and that fee comes out of the same pot as your package. There is none here. The practice pays us a flat subscription whether they hire you or not — so nothing is taken out of your rate, and nobody earns more by steering you somewhere you don’t want to go.
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The questions doctors actually ask us.
01How do I actually apply?
02What does it actually pay?
03Is this permanent, or would they take a locum?
04Do I have to be a Fellow?
05I trained overseas. Can I work here?
06What is the “teaching culture” — would I be supervising registrars?
07What are the hours, and do I have to work weekends?
08What support is actually on site?
09Where exactly is it, and how would I get there?
10Why isn’t the practice named on this page?
11If I enquire here, does the practice get my details?
12What does Heart Bridge Health cost me?
A room in a forty-seven-year-old practice doesn't open often.
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Every figure on this page comes from the practice's own listing in the Heart Bridge Health app and from the practice's own answers to us, and is indicative until confirmed in writing with them. Rates, billing arrangements and the three-month hourly minimum are matters for you and the practice. Catchment figures are ABS Census 2021 for postcode 4170. Distribution Priority Area and Modified Monash classifications are set by the Department of Health and change — confirm your own position with the Department. Photographs on this page are licensed stock of Brisbane and Moreton Bay, not of the practice.