Visiting doctors secure wage increase
After four months of negotiations, an end is in sight for Queensland’s Visiting Medical Officers.
The Queensland Government has made an offer for a wage and support increase for Visiting Medical Officers in Queensland, with 91.5 percent of 500 officers in support.
The offer includes wage increases of three percent, 2.5 percent and 2.5 percent over three years, plus cost-of-living adjustments, as well as a one-off three precent increase to professional development allowance rates, expansion of the clinical managers and medical managers allowances.
It comes after four months of negotiations between Queensland Health, the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation Queensland and Together Queensland, followed by a staff ballot process.
Health and Ambulance Services Minister Tim Nicholls welcomed the deal closing.
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“Visiting Medical Officers make our health system stronger, by improving access to medical expertise, reducing wait times, supporting on-call rosters, and bringing specialist services into regional and metropolitan public hospitals,” Nicholls said.
He added that more than 500 doctors were set to benefit from the increased wages and enhanced conditions under the agreement.
Visiting Medical Officers are private specialists contracted by Queensland Health to fill gaps in the public system, contributing full-time medical specialist services across metropolitan and regional hospitals.
The agreement follows five other enterprise agreements signed off for some 122,000 Queensland Health employees since 2024.
This includes nurses and midwives, paramedics, medical officers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers and Queensland Health staff, including administration, operational, professional and technical staff.
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