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Tristar medical clinics to close across four states and territories after failing to attract a buyer

Ten GP clinics across four states and territories previously owned by Tristar Medical Group have failed to attract a buyer and will cease operations on Friday.

McGrathNichol Restructuring were appointed as Tristar Medical Group’s administrators in May after the company owed creditors more than $9.3million.

“It is regrettable that the clinics must close,” administrator Matthew Caddy said.

“In the absence of buyers for the clinics, which are loss-making, we have been left with no other option.”

Clinics include those at Avoca, Ararat, Dandenong and Grovedale in Victoria, Kempsey and West Wyalong in New South Wales, and at Bruce in Canberra.

Three Northern Territory centers across Darwin and Palmerston will also close.

The administrators said doctors and staff working at the clinics had been advised of the closure.

The ABC heard that there was a potential buyer for the 10 clinics, but that deal fell through at the last minute and clinic staff were only notified of the closure on Tuesday afternoon.

The Family Doctor group on August 5 purchased 12 of Tristar’s clinics, which were mainly located in Victoria.

Bulk billing ‘unsustainable’

Tristar medical clinics offered bulk-billing patients but Royal Australian College of General Practitioners president Karen Price said it was unsustainable.

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