Lifestyle

Start small, grow with C.A.L.L.S

Open up a few hours a week as extra income. Grow from there as the platform grows in your area. Being part of C.A.L.L.S is running your own GP practice from the homes of your patients.

Start with a few hours

You do not need to restructure your week to try this. On C.A.L.L.S you choose your own suburbs and your own availability, with no minimum sessions and no roster (how it works). Many GPs begin with a couple of hours a week around existing clinic or hospital work, treating it as extra income rather than a career change. Membership only begins after your first confirmed booking, and the one-time signup fee comes off that first invoice (source).

Our page on part-time, returning and semi-retired GPs goes through this in more detail, including what to check if you are returning after a break.

As C.A.L.L.S grows, it markets your area for you

A single GP cannot build the same visibility as a platform. As C.A.L.L.S grows in a suburb, the Active plan's priority matching and the Premium plan's featured placement in search put your profile in front of more of the patients searching that area (pricing). The platform also handles patient communication directly - confirmations, en route alerts and ETA updates - so you are not running your own marketing or answering calls between visits (how it works).

This is a feature of the plan, not a promise. How much visibility that produces in any one suburb depends on how many patients and GPs are active there, and C.A.L.L.S does not guarantee bookings. The underlying demand is sourced and set out in full on our patient demand guide and home visit market page, not asserted here.

Your own practice, from the homes of your patients

There is no clinic room and no clinic roster. You set your fee and keep 100 percent of it, with no commission, only a flat monthly membership (pricing). Every visit is booked as a 30-minute slot, and payment is released once your paperwork is complete and the patient confirms the visit (how it works). The RACGP's Standards for general practices recognise home visits as part of accessible general practice when safe and reasonable.

What changes is where the practice happens. The waiting room becomes the patient's living room, and the equipment is what you carry rather than what a clinic owns. Our equipment checklist and a day in the life page set out what that looks like in practice.

Why this matters beyond the income

Getting to a clinic is a genuine barrier for some patients. The ABS Patient Experiences survey records transport and distance among the reasons people delay or skip seeing a health professional, and the AIHW found that half of older Australians' falls hospitalisations happen in the home. A GP who opens even a few hours a week to home visits is reaching patients who would otherwise go without.

This model already exists, in more than one city

Daytime, privately billed GP home visiting is not a theory. Perth Home GP has run a privately billed mobile GP practice in Perth since 2020 and publishes its fees. In Sydney, HomeDoc, run by Dr Terry Nguyen, describes itself as Sydney\u2019s only GP doing house calls during regular business hours (7am to 6pm), privately billed, with published fees of 160 to 250 dollars and a typical arrival window of 30 to 90 minutes across the Eastern Suburbs, CBD and North Shore - fees in the same range as a typical C.A.L.L.S visit. We also found a Melbourne CBD clinic offering home and hotel visits from 999 dollars, but that is a corporate and hotel-guest concierge service at several times the usual home-visit fee, not a comparable model, so we have not counted it as evidence of retail demand. We looked for a retail daytime, privately billed model in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and Darwin and found only after-hours, bulk-billed deputising services, or ad-hoc home visits for a clinic's own existing patients.

We have not found published patient numbers for Perth Home GP or HomeDoc, so we do not quote one, and neither is a promise that the same demand exists in every suburb. For the sourced case on access and need, see patient demand for daytime GP home visits and why daytime GP home visits are uncovered.

What you need before you start

Current AHPRA registration, a Medicare provider number, and indemnity insurance that covers all aspects of your practice. C.A.L.L.S verifies all three before your profile goes live (source). Our step-by-step guide and onboarding walkthrough cover the rest.