FOI 26-3178 – Review of CoHealth General Practice and related services

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The release is the March 2026 final report of the independent Review of cohealth general practice and related services, commissioned jointly by the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments after cohealth decided in September 2025 to close its Collingwood, Fitzroy and Kensington GP clinics. The reviewers (Stephen Duckett, John Furler and Jane Seeber) found the clinics were running at a loss, attributing this partly to cohealth's governance and management and partly to Medicare settings that lack weighting for complexity, incentivise shorter consultations and do not fund multidisciplinary care. Recommendations include a two-year Commonwealth support extension, a Health Program Grant pilot for multidisciplinary teams in place of Medicare rebates, an independent evaluation, and revised cohealth management and clinical governance. The text also notes that the closure timeline was under three months.