Under the stewardship of a new CEO, the peak body will no longer focus solely on general practice supervisors.
General Practice Supervision Australia has announced plans to expand beyond general practice to meet “emerging needs across the wider healthcare environment”.
GPSA chair Dr Srishti Dutta told The Medical Republic that the intention behind the changes was to ensure that the peak could support a range of supervisors outside of the traditional AGPT focus.
“In terms of what it might look like, we already have resources that have been developed for medical student supervision, for example, and in addition we have developed additional informational webinars for our members which being taken up quite well,” she said.
“There’s more in that pipeline as well, and it may evolve to include other aspects that … evolve from the next few months of what governance and elections.”
Support for current members will remain the same, she said, and the resources on offer will expand rather than shrink.
“We have to be responsive to what comes to us from members [in terms of] needs which are either not conventionally what has been catered to, but also that may be evolving because the population of GPs and supervisors changes,” Dr Dutta said.
“We have to maintain that agility.”
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Carla Taylor, who has served as the organisation’s CEO since 2022, has stepped down from the helm, to be replaced by interim CEO Bruce Argyle.
Mr Argyle previously led the non-profit specialist team at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and has held roles at various philanthropic organisations.
Ms Taylor will remain at GPSA in a newly created role as the organisation’s executive lead of special projects.
This will include working with other organisations in the education and training space.
“My focus has always been on identifying and maximising opportunities for GPSA and its members,” Ms Taylor said.
“In this new role, and with the support of a wonderful interim CEO, I’ll be leading initiatives that expand our offerings beyond the traditional to ensure the organisation is well-positioned for the future.”
