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Congratulating South Australia’s RACGP Award winners

Royal Australian College of GPs < 1 min read

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

The winners are:

  • GP of the Year is Dr Mehri Azghandi Gonabadi in Roxby Downs in the Far North.
  • GP Supervisor of the Year is Dr Penny Need in Tea Tree Gully.
  • Practice of the Year goes to Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Health Care Service in Adelaide (Toni Shearing is a Director at the practice). 

Please contact us via [email protected] or 03 8699 0992 for interviews. 

~ENDS


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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.

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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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