Health Insurance places

Defense Health has entered into arrangements with more than 500 of Australia's top privately-owned clinics and wards.

With your Defence Health membership cards, you can have your additional services directly disbursed to your supplier in his surgery. Defense Health can help lower or even eliminates your healthcare expenses if your physician is willing to use Access Gap.

Ministry of Health | Bonded Medical Places (BMP) Program

One of these programmes is the bonding medical places (BMP) scheme. It is currently in the process of reforms to the Borrower's Note Loan program to increase assistance to borrower's note loans and improve the returns of services to areas of countryside, remoteness and labour shortages. As of 1 January 2020, all BMP programme members will be able to choose the new rules aimed at encouraging more physicians to work and reside in countryside and outlying areas.

When you join the BMP program in 2015 or sooner and decide to transition to the revised rules, your remaining commitment to surrender services will be limited to a period of three years. Any previous returns of services will be recorded and refunded to you under the new agreements.

When you join the BMP program between 2016 and 2018 and decide to transition to the revised agreements, you keep your 12-month returns commitment. Those participating in the BMP programme in 2019 will be included in the programme under the current agreements. Subscribers can decide to take advantage of the new regulations and keep their 12-month returns to the facility.

We encourage all our subscribers to keep their present contract needs up to date and to maintain their present contract commitments. What is the BMP scheme? Exchanging for a doctor's place, the tied students arrange to work for one to six years in an area where there is a lack of labour.

Duration will depend on your arrangement and is referred to as the returns deadline. Timeframes vary for subscribers who join the system in 2015 or before and for persons who join the system between 2016 and 2018. BMP does not offer a fellowship. BMP programme information for those joining between 2016 and 2018; and 2019 agreements.

BMP programme information for those who acceded in 2015 or before. Important: It is important that you are aware of your responsibilities as you work towards your studies and your comeback phase.