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Congratulating Western Australia’s RACGP Award winners

Royal Australian College of GPs < 1 mins read

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is congratulating this year’s outstanding WA RACGP Award winners.

The winners are:

  • GP of the Year is Dr Andrew Leech in Murdoch
  • GP Supervisor of the Year is Dr Fen Chin of Cockburn Central.
  • Practice of the Year goes to the Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service in East Perth (Dr Richelle Douglas is the Medical Director). It provides culturally secure primary health, mental health and dental services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living right across the Perth metro area.
  • GP in Training of the Year is Dr Corey Dalton from Derbarl Yerrigan in East Perth.

All award winners work in Perth and are available for interview.

~ENDS


About us:

About the RACGP

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) was established in 1958 and is Australia’s peak general practice representative organisation.

The RACGP has more than 41,000 members working in or towards a career in general practice, more than 9,500 of them live and work in rural and remote areas of the country. Nine in every 10 GPs are with the RACGP.

Visit www.racgp.org.au. To unsubscribe from RACGP media releases, click here.


Contact details:

John Ronan
Media Adviser
[email protected] (we will respond promptly to all requests for interview)

Stuart Winthrope
Media Adviser
[email protected]

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