The business of general practice in Australia, mapped.
340 group operators manage 2,041 practice sites between them, close to a quarter of all general practice in the country. Four in five of them have five sites or fewer. Ten of them hold more than a third of the sites. Outside the groups sit 391 single practices large enough to be operators in their own right. This page shows who owns what, and where the market is concentrated.
Each Thursday we walk the market: who is buying, what changed, who is growing and who is winding back. We curate broadly from media and regulatory sources, and track what is being set up and sold through broking services.
Thursday 8 October 2026
Medibank's virtual GP pilot grows 34% in a month; practices can no longer pass card fees to patients; Ahpra puts practice business models on notice over conflicts of interest; four new chronic condition phone items start on 1 November.
Medius tracks new general practices across Australia each week from booking-platform data and the national register of general practices, and checks each one against its own website before it is listed.
The monitor shows confirmed openings for the fortnight, the openings ahead, and a sortable index of every new practice tracked: state, region, independent or group, billing and GP count.
A periodic market review built from the same weekly monitoring behind the Zoo: the named deal record, the disclosed comparable set and the 9 to 13 times platform band, the buyer universe and what each buyer tests. Read from the owner's side and the buyer's side, because the same fact prices differently depending on where you sit.
July 2026 edition: Bupa buys Partnered Health at a press-reported ~$450m. Insurers now set the platform price.
That is roughly a quarter of all general practice sites nationally. The GP count is a unique headcount within each operator: a doctor working across several of one operator's sites is counted once. Summed across operators, a GP working for more than one group is counted in each, so the national figure slightly overstates the number of distinct individuals. Treat it as indicative.
The dataset covers every entity managing two or more general practice sites under common ownership or management: ASX-listed health companies, private equity platforms, insurance-backed operators, doctor-owned groups and everything in between. Sites, GP counts and state presence are compiled from operator websites, booking platforms and direct verification.
They have almost nothing in common but their size: a health insurer, a listed pathology company, a private equity platform and a doctor who kept buying practices.
Total sites per owner, counting every brand they hold. Share of the 2,041 group sites nationally. Colour shows owner type.
Between them: 540 sites, 26.5% of the group footprint. Next largest is Bupa, owner of Partnered Health, at 84 sites (4.1%). Below the top owners, the rest of the 337 parent owners share what is left; the median owner has two sites.
ForHealth's metro medical centres average close to twelve GPs each. Ochre's regional clinics average three. ForHealth sits fourth by site count, Ochre fifth. At the far end, Our Medical averages 21 GPs a site across its 15 sites, the densest operator in the country.
Western Australia has fewer sites than the eastern states, but its operators each hold more sites than anywhere else, so its market is more consolidated. The two territories and Tasmania have only a handful of group practices, and most of those are owned by companies based in the eastern mainland states. Amplar Health leads New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia; Family Doctor leads Victoria; Jupiter Health leads Western Australia; Ochre Health leads the ACT and Tasmania.
7.5 sites per operator, the highest density in the country. Three WA-founded groups (Jupiter, Spectrum, Brecken) hold about a third of the state; national corporates hold the rest, managed from the eastern states. Few local buyers, and the field is already occupied.
Amplar Health and Pro Health Care hold 28 sites between them. The rest are small.
Three multi-state groups hold more than half. Mostly mainland-owned.
The most fragmented market in the country, with no group at meaningful scale.
Radiant Doctors Group (6 sites) and Territory Medical Group (2 sites) are the only group operators in the Territory.
Amplar Health, the largest owner, holds 8.6%. The top five owners hold 30.6% of all group sites, the top ten 41.5%, the top fifty 63.6%. Four owners alone hold more than a quarter of the sites, while 84% of operators have five sites or fewer. GP concentration is higher again: the top ten owners hold 48% of GPs under group management, because the largest operators have larger practices.
Group operators hold roughly 27 to 29% of Australia's general practices and about 35% of the GP workforce. By comparison, three operators hold more than 85% of pathology, and two hold about half of diagnostic imaging.
By practice count the independent sector is larger than the group sector: 4,356 practices and 17,863 GPs, owned by no group. Most are small. Solo and two-GP practices are more than four in ten. The working core is the 3 to 9 GP band, 1,917 practices. Only 392 have 10 or more GPs, and 33 have 20 or more.
A further 300 practices have no confirmed GP count. Nurse status is recorded for 83% of the list. Across all 4,356 practices, 1,282 (29%) have a nurse confirmed on site.
33 independents have 20 or more GPs (Victoria 11, New South Wales 10, Queensland 6). At that size, a single practice holds as many GPs as a small group operator, under one owner. Victoria and New South Wales hold more than half of the 392 practices with 10 or more GPs.
The written read on the register: the operators, the states, the concentration tiers and the large independents, as a PDF.
The full dataset includes layers we do not publish here, because they are commercially useful to operators making acquisition or expansion decisions.
Each operator's percentile rank by sites and GPs, the number of larger operators in the same geography, and the count of plausible acquirers. Where you sit, and how many are above you.
Single-state operators by size band and geography, matched against the expansion profiles of larger groups. Where the targets are.
An operator with 25 sites and 246 GPs is a different business from one with 25 sites and 115 GPs. This page shows site count; the full data shows what those sites are worth operationally.
Medius Global works with GP practice owners and group operators on expansion planning, acquisition targeting, sale preparation and operational improvement. The Zoo data is one of several sources we maintain so the work stays evidence based.
Contact Medius to discuss access to the full dataset, or browse the data catalogue and pricing.
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