GP Recruitment - Hobart

Work as a home-visit GP in Hobart: side income now, build your own practice as we grow

Tasmania posts the highest average GP gap fee in the country. C.A.L.L.S has no GPs live in Hobart yet - which is exactly why there is an early-mover opening for the first one. Sources listed at the end of this post.

The gap fee problem is sharpest in Tasmania

Cleanbill's 2025 clinic survey found that nationally only around 20.7% of clinics still bulk-bill new adult patients, down from roughly 35% two years earlier (The Senior). Tasmania was the extreme case: the survey found no clinics in the state bulk-billing new adult patients, and Tasmanian patients paid the highest average gap in the country, at $54.26 per standard consultation versus $43.38 nationally (RACGP newsGP). Patients in and around Hobart are already used to paying privately for GP care - the question is what alternative they are offered.

Cost is now a reason people skip care altogether

Nationally, more than 1.5 million Australians now delay or avoid seeing a GP because of cost, up from roughly 600,000 in 2022 (AAP, citing ABS data). That is not a sign there is no appetite for GP care - it is a sign the two options on offer (an unaffordable gap fee, or a long wait for a bulk-billed slot) are failing a meaningful share of patients. A private home-visit service priced on its own terms is a third option, not a replacement for either.

The workforce side of the story

It is not only patients under pressure. The RACGP's Health of the Nation 2023 survey found more than 70% of GPs report burnout, almost a third intend to cut back or leave within five years, and only 13.1% of medical graduates now choose general practice (RACGP). Deloitte projects a national shortfall of 11,392 full-time-equivalent GPs by 2032, around 27.9% of the workforce (Deloitte), and the AMA estimates close to $4 billion was stripped from general practice by the 2013-2017 and 2020 Medicare rebate freezes (AMA). A model that pays a GP's own set fee, with no commission, is a direct answer to that income pressure.

A side income, not a second job

C.A.L.L.S is built to sit alongside your existing work, not replace it on day one. You set your own availability windows - two mornings a week, weekends only, whatever fits around your clinic session, locum run or hospital roster - and your own suburb zones around Hobart. There is no quota, no roster, and no room rental to cover before you break even. If a week does not suit, you simply do not open it.

Be the first C.A.L.L.S GP in Hobart

C.A.L.L.S has zero GPs onboarded anywhere in Australia at this point - this is a genuine ground-floor opportunity, not an established marketplace you are joining late. As the platform grows city by city, the first GP active in a given city is the one best placed to turn early bookings into a recurring patient panel and build that into their main practice over time, rather than keep it as a side income indefinitely. Our piece on starting small and growing with C.A.L.L.S sets out how that progression tends to work.

How billing and scheduling work

You set your own consultation fee and keep 100% of it. C.A.L.L.S charges a flat membership and takes no commission (see pricing). Bookings, dispatch and payment run through the platform so you are not left chasing admin (how it works).