Budget 2014: The wrap for GPs

Key measures in the 2014 budget for GPs:

Medicare rebates and co-payments:

Rebates for standard GP consults will be slashed by $5 as part of the Federal Government's budget co-payment plan.

The MBS will be scaled back by $3.5 billion over five years. Specialist rebates will be frozen for two years.

However general practice patients will bear the brunt of the MBS savings.

Patients will make a $7 contribution – not just for GP consultations, but for out-of-hospital pathology and diagnostic imaging