The business of general practice in Australia, mapped.
340 group operators. 2,041 practice sites. More than four fifths of them run five sites or fewer. Ten of them hold more than a third of the sites. And outside the fence, 391 independent practices big enough to be groups themselves. This is who owns what, where and how the turf divides.
Each weekday we walk the enclosures: who is buying, what changed, which species are thriving and which are disappearing. Every item sourced, linked and labelled by confidence.
Friday 31 July 2026
No new Australian GP deal on the register since 3 July; Green Cross's New Zealand sale of The Doctors is due to complete today; two new GP practices open in New South Wales, Appin Healthcare Centre on 29 July and Parry Street Family Practice on 24 July; four GP practices are advertised for sale, two in Western Australia and two in New South Wales.
A periodic market review built from the same daily monitoring behind the zoo. The named deal record from November 2025, the disclosed comp set and the 9-13x 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 which side you are on.
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 that operator's sites is counted once. Summed across operators, a GP who works for more than one group is counted in each, so the national figure slightly overstates the count of distinct individuals. Treat it as indicative, not exact.
The dataset covers every entity managing two or more general practice sites under a common ownership or management structure: ASX-listed health companies, private equity platforms, insurance-backed operators, doctor-owned groups and everything in between.
Practice sites, GP counts and state presence are compiled from operator websites, booking platforms and direct verification.
Four operators hold just under a quarter of all group general practice sites in Australia. None of them look alike.
A pathology conglomerate, an insurer's flagship brand, a GP who kept buying practices and a private equity vehicle. Between them: 454 sites, 22.2% of the group footprint. The animals at the top don't come from the same family.
Below them, 336 operators share the remaining 77.8%. Most run two to five sites. The median operator runs two.
Site count tells you how big an operator is. GPs per site tells you what kind of operator it is.
ForHealth sits fourth by site count, Ochre fifth. One runs large metro practices with mixed billing and allied health co-location. The other runs small regional clinics, mostly staffed through DPA recruitment pathways.
An 11.8 practice and a 3.2 practice don't share a waiting room, a billing model or a recruitment problem.
Thirty-four operators. 254 sites. 7.5 sites per operator, the highest density of any state.
Three WA natives hold around 36% of the state's group sites:
These three are WA natives. National corporates operate here too, run from the eastern states: IPN holds 29 WA sites, with Family Doctor, ForHealth and Bupa also present across the state. They count toward the national footprint rather than the WA natives above.
The eastern seaboard has 90 to 115 operators per state. WA has 34. If you're buying in WA, the enclosure is already full. If you're selling, there aren't many feeding at the gate.
After that, it gets uneven.
7.5 sites per operator, the highest density of any state.
Three multi-state groups account for more than half of them. A small zoo, mostly run by visitors.
Amplar Health and Pro Health Care hold 28 sites between them. The rest are small.
That is a lot of operators for 34 sites.
Radiant Doctors Group (6 sites) and Territory Medical Group (2 sites) are the only group operators in the Territory.
The sector is fragmented, but the weight is shifting upward.
GP concentration is higher than site concentration at every tier, because the largest operators run larger, GP-dense practices. The top 10 operators account for 43.9% of all GPs in group structures.
For comparison: in pathology, three operators hold over 85% of the market. In diagnostic imaging, two operators hold roughly half. General practice is nowhere near that level of consolidation.
Beyond the group operators sits a second population: standalone practices, owned by no group, that carry the GP headcount of a small operator inside a single site. On numbers alone they match a group, but they run as one practice, not a portfolio.
Median 13 GPs, largest 32, and roughly seven in ten keep nurses on site. That is what makes them targets: a group can add a whole practice worth of GPs in a single transaction, with the scale already sitting in one place. Victoria and New South Wales hold more than half of them.
33 independents run 20 or more GPs (Victoria 11, New South Wales 10, Queensland 6). At that size one practice matches a small group operator on GPs and revenue, held by a single owner. For a group buying scale, these are the cleanest targets going: group-sized headcount in one transaction, no portfolio to unpick.
The ten largest of the 33 practices running 20 or more GPs. The full list, with contacts, sits in the licensable dataset alongside the group operators.
Filter by state. Sort by site count or GP numbers.
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The dashboard shows the public layer of the dataset: 340 group operators, their site counts, GP numbers and state distribution.
The full dataset includes layers that are not published 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 in the hierarchy, 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 animal from one with 25 sites and 115 GPs. The dashboard shows site count. The full data shows what those sites are worth operationally.
In development: predictive datasets built on the same base, reading which practices fit which acquirers before either side has picked up the phone.
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 things we maintain so our work can be data driven and cut to the chase for where your business wants to be.
Contact Medius to discuss access to the full dataset, or browse the data catalogue and pricing.
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