Carlton · Melbourne · VIC

Run your own GP home visit practice in Carlton, Melbourne

Set your own fee. Choose your own hours. Keep 100 percent of every visit. Carlton is one of the suburbs close to the Melbourne CBD that we are recruiting GPs for.

Carlton at a glance

At the 2021 Census, Carlton had a population of 16,055 and a median age of 27, compared with 38 for Australia as a whole (ABS Census QuickStats).

Greater Melbourne had a population of 5,350,705 at 30 June 2024, growing by 2.7 percent over 2023-24, according to the ABS Regional population release. Census figures are from 2021, so the current population will differ.

Why home visits matter

Getting to a clinic is a barrier for some patients even in a capital city. The ABS Patient Experiences survey records transport and distance among the reasons people delay or skip seeing a health professional, and a review of older Australians' access to health services found transport posed multiple barriers. The AIHW found half of older Australians' falls hospitalisations occur in the home.

We have not published Carlton-specific patient numbers for home visits, and we do not promise bookings.

See the evidence for demand

Private, daytime home visiting already exists in more than one Australian city, not just as a theory. Perth Home GP is a privately billed mobile GP practice in Perth, founded in 2020, that offers daytime and after-hours home visits and publishes its fees. It also lists GP partnerships. In Sydney, HomeDoc, run by Dr Terry Nguyen, describes itself as Sydney's only GP doing house calls during regular business hours, privately billed, with published fees of 160 to 250 dollars - in the same range as a typical C.A.L.L.S visit. We also found a Melbourne CBD clinic that offers 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 retail model, so we have not used it as evidence here. 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 We have not found published patient numbers for Perth Home GP or HomeDoc, so we do not quote one. These pages set out the wider evidence, and none of it guarantees bookings or income:

• Patient demand for daytime GP home visits
• The Australian GP home visit market
• Why daytime GP home visits are uncovered
• What patients pay for GP home visits
• Elderly patients and GP home visits
• Daytime GP home visits in Australia: the full picture

How it would work in Carlton

• You choose your suburb zones, such as Carlton, the Melbourne CBD and Fitzroy or South Yarra, and your availability (how it works).
• You set your own fee and keep 100 percent. Membership is A$299, A$599 or A$999 a month and starts only after your first confirmed booking (pricing).
• Every visit is a 30-minute slot, and payment is released once your paperwork is complete and the patient confirms the visit (how it works).
• You need AHPRA registration, a Medicare provider number and indemnity cover for your practice, which we verify before your profile goes live.

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