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The Brewarrina Hospital and Health Service is located 760 kilometres north-west of Sydney. Charlotte Grieve<\/p>\nDoctor Simon Rose\u2019s dusty ute rolls into Brewarrina in the golden hour of a late-November Sunday.<\/p>\n
He drives straight to a single-storey corrugated-iron hospital tucked beneath a gum tree at the end of a wide, quiet street in the centre of the north-western NSW town of 1300 people, mostly Indigenous.<\/p>\n
There is just one man in the emergency ward, drying out after hitting his head the night before. A nurse called Jesus, from India, is the only other medical staffer on deck.<\/p>\n
The Brewarrina Hospital and Health Service is located 760 kilometres north-west of Sydney. Charlotte Grieve<\/p>\n
Rose is here to work as a locum doctor, tending to patients experiencing anything from life-threatening crises to run-of-the-mill ailments. He will work seven days straight, on call for 24 hours.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the third time he\u2019s worked here, as he crisscrosses the outback for weeks-long shifts in some of the country\u2019s most under-serviced facilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are all one-doctor hospitals,\u201d the 71-year-old says. \u201cI love this kind of medicine. And I like being in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nurses say Rose is the most experienced clinician they\u2019ve worked with, as regional hospitals struggle to attract any doctors, let alone senior ones.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love Rosey,\u201d said one nurse, unable to be named because she did not have the permission of her employer. \u201cHe\u2019s a great doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rose has long treated society\u2019s most vulnerable, including Melbourne sex workers; he opened a low-cost, award-winning addiction clinic in St Kilda, First Step.<\/p>\n
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Rose has travelled thousands of kilometres to work in outback hospitals.Charlotte Grieve<\/p>\n
He has spent the past year fighting a protracted investigation by healthcare watchdog AHPRA (the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority), which saw the regulator try to suspend him and threatened his medical career.<\/p>\n
Documents obtained by this masthead reveal that AHPRA\u2019s investigation included false allegations, legally dubious tactics and delays.<\/p>\n
The initial complaint against Rose was based partly on a misreading of his prescription history, prompting criticism from a tribunal member.<\/p>\n
During the subsequent probe he conceded he had not fully met record-keeping requirements but argued this had no impact on his patients and was not sufficient grounds to stop him treating patients.<\/p>\n
Editor’s pick The medical board was then forced to conduct an internal investigation into an AHPRA staff member who went undercover to gather evidence against Rose.<\/p>\n An agreement was reached last month allowing Rose to continue his outback work, while stopping treatment of addiction patients, yet AHPRA\u2019s investigation into his practice remains ongoing.<\/p>\n Rose has had several run-ins with the regulator since 2016, which he says is focused on paperwork not patient care, causing such immense stress he has considered retiring early.<\/p>\n Instead, he is publicly calling for reform.<\/p>\n \u201cAHPRA is bad for the Australian public, and it\u2019s bad for Australian doctors,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a Kafkaesque organisation that\u2019s accountable to nobody. Someone needs to stand up.\u201d<\/p>\n This masthead has reported on complaints about AHPRA for three years, from failure to investigate patient complaints<\/a> to accusations of abuse of process from practitioners.<\/p>\n An AHPRA spokesperson said they could not answer questions about individual cases, such as Rose\u2019s, but issued a statement defending its immediate action process and work underway to improve investigation timeliness and transparency as well as minimising practitioner distress.<\/p>\n In recent years, this masthead has spoken to dozens of doctors who have alleged AHPRA misconduct, but few are prepared to speak publicly.<\/p>\n Dr Niro Sivathasan says this is changing as systemic problems continue to drive doctors out of the industry. \u201cA lot of people have had enough,\u201d says Sivathasan, who heads a lobby group calling for AHPRA reform.<\/p>\n He said protecting patients is \u201cparamount\u201d, but claims AHPRA is KPI-driven<\/a> and pursues action against \u201clow-hanging fruit\u201d for minor administrative failures, while overlooking systemic misconduct.<\/p>\n Sivathasan says AHPRA\u2019s immediate action powers \u2013 where practitioners can be suspended before wrongdoing is proven \u2013 must be reviewed, and called for strict investigation timelines, to limit financial and emotional strain on doctors.<\/p>\n \u201cAHPRA has said in the past decade there have been 16 deaths of doctors directly linked to investigations,\u201d he says, quoting a study by the watchdog into suicides stemming from it work. \u201cWe believe the number is higher.\u201d<\/p>\n Rose was born in Melbourne. A fellow Monash University student noted that he was a \u201cmaverick\u201d in medicine with an eccentric personality and endless energy.<\/p>\n He hated academic confines and discovered early in his career that his passion came from understanding his patients\u2019 stories.<\/p>\n In the 1990s, his friend and fellow doctor, Marc Cohen, asked him to perform sexual health checks for sex workers in suburban brothels from Box Hill to St Kilda.<\/p>\n \u201cI got to know the working girls very well,\u201d he says. \u201cMany were putting what they earned into their arms.\u201d<\/p>\n He wanted to learn more about addiction therapy and travelled to Western Australia for training in naltrexone, a drug that blocks opioid receptors and reduces cravings.<\/p>\n Melbourne was in the grips of a heroin glut, where overdose deaths were frequent, and effective rehabilitation was unknown and underfunded.<\/p>\n Some doctors sold miracle recoveries for exorbitant fees, but it was Rose\u2019s no-frills detox treatment for a family member of philanthropist Peter White that finally managed to get them clean.<\/p>\n Inspired, White pledged to fully fund a specialist clinic offering help to anyone.<\/p>\n He bought a St Kilda property, and together \u2013 with help from Tim Costello \u2013 they packed mattress rows into a living room where patients were weaned off heroin under Rose\u2019s supervision.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes it looked like a bit of a war zone,\u201d says White, who owned businesses across several industries. \u201cSimon helped a lot of people. He\u2019s excellent with people. It was one of the most rewarding things I did in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n Rose was an early adopter of the whole-of-patient approach to addiction, looking at the social and underlying health factors that drove heroin use, and tailoring individual treatment.<\/p>\n Magistrates were invited to the clinic, and Rose advocated for the establishment of the drug courts that treated addiction as a medical rather than criminal problem \u2013 work for which he was awarded a Centenary Medal in the early 2000s and would, decades later, lead to his trouble with the regulator.<\/p>\n \u201cThe concept of dual diagnosis is now widely accepted,\u201d Rose wrote to AHPRA during its investigation. \u201cUnderlying conditions such as depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, anxiety disorder, personality disorder, and others are common predisposing factors that lead to addiction.\u201d <\/p>\n When Rose left the clinic in 2004, he continued treating a handful of patients, prescribing opioid replacement medications and checking in on their welfare.<\/p>\n When he moved his young family to Mullumbimby, these relationships continued remotely \u2013 with appointments held from cafes, his patients\u2019 homes or over the phone.<\/p>\n He never charged for this care and didn\u2019t take clinical notes, but through interviews, several patients described the therapeutic relationship as being a lifeline.<\/p>\n \u201cHe never judges,\u201d Rachael Cooke says from a Collingwood public housing unit.<\/p>\n \u201cI think Simon would have got to hear the truth from his patients. He\u2019s done a lot to help because he actually listens and gets to know people. He\u2019s been a positive force during his career. He\u2019s helped us, and a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n These patients remained stable for more than two decades, until last year, when one man was assaulted, stalked and had his home invaded, causing anxiety to spike, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) heard.<\/p>\n Rose temporarily increased the benzodiazepine prescription, but the patient relapsed on heroin and ended up in hospital.<\/p>\n Related Article With the patient\u2019s pharmacist, Rose transferred the man\u2019s care to another doctor, but it was too late.<\/p>\n A doctor at the hospital looked up the patient\u2019s history and was alarmed by what looked like Rose prescribing 1080 benzodiazepines in three weeks. Crucially, that assessment did not account for the dispensing limits and cancellations.<\/p>\n Rose was reported to AHPRA, which used its \u201cimmediate action\u201d powers to suspend his entire medical practice. Investigators held a 20-minute meeting with Rose and not a single question was asked, according to records seen by this masthead.<\/p>\n Shortly after, AHPRA determined that Rose\u2019s prescribing was \u201cdangerous and excessive\u201d and combining medicines \u201ccould be fatal\u201d. Alleging he was a risk to public safety, his registration was stripped pending further investigation.<\/p>\n Rose\u2019s regional hospital shifts were cancelled. He called his addiction patients to say they needed to find new doctors.<\/p>\n One man\u2019s eyes welled with tears when he reflected on this moment, which cut short a plan to wean him off methadone for the first time in 10 years.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t imagine what that was like,\u201d said the patient, who requested anonymity for privacy reasons. \u201cIt essentially meant I\u2019m stuck in these chemical handcuffs [methadone] forever.\u201d<\/p>\n When Rose looked more closely at what AHPRA had claimed, he was shocked.<\/p>\n \u201cThey read the history wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cThe prescriptions had limits so he could never access the amount of benzos they were claiming.\u201d<\/p>\n Rose\u2019s insurer declined to fund his fight to overturn the decision, on the basis that his claim, which was supported by another legal opinion, was not strong enough. So he paid for his own lawyers.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a kangaroo court,\u201d said one lawyer familiar with the case, who could not be named due to the ongoing investigation. \u201cThey take drastic action based on little evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n Before the tribunal hearing last February, Rose explained that the prescriptions AHPRA relied upon were either cancelled, or came with tight restrictions, meaning only 28 pills were dispensed each week.<\/p>\n Related Article During the hearing, Rose explained that two of the five scripts cited by AHPRA were cancelled because the previous usual dosage was no longer available, so he prescribed a different dose.<\/p>\n Rose was also supported by references from rural colleagues, who described him as \u201calways welcome back\u201d, \u201cexceptional\u201d and \u201cvery calm\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no doubt that his clinical work and judgment is faultless,\u201d said one rural GP. \u201cHe does his job diligently and takes all the precautions necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n Sally-Anne Shermann, a medical recruiter who books Rose\u2019s jobs, told the tribunal that rural medicine was in \u201ccrisis\u201d from a lack of doctors, and someone with his experience was in high demand.<\/p>\n Rose agreed to stop treating the addiction patients immediately, pending a final hearing, but disputed that they were ever in danger, highlighting the long periods of stability and gradually reduced reliance on medication.<\/p>\n The tribunal senior member said AHPRA\u2019s concerns about the quantity of tablets were \u201cquestionable\u201d and found that the patient\u2019s relapse and hospitalisation were a result of distress caused by the stalker, not his medication.<\/p>\n The member said Rose\u2019s repeated administrative failures were \u201cworrying\u201d.<\/p>\n They called out a lack of note-taking as well as the fact that Rose not only did not check the Safe Scripts website, which prevents doctor-shopping, as he was legally required to do but was not aware the service existed.<\/p>\n Still, they found the public safety risk was less significant than AHPRA suggested.<\/p>\n Within a week, the member lifted the interim ban on Rose\u2019s outback work, finding he plays an \u201cimportant role in giving rural and remote communities access to necessary medical care\u201d.<\/p>\n Rose has since driven thousands of kilometres working at hospitals in Collinsville, Condobolin, Lightning Ridge, Bourke and Moranbah.<\/p>\n The vegetarian, non-drinker likes playing bridge into the night or painting outback scenes.<\/p>\n One of his paintings depicts an Aboriginal man he found in the South Australian desert, after the man\u2019s family came to the hospital for help.<\/p>\n Rose and some of the nurses went searching on the man\u2019s ancestral lands, and found his body. They counselled the family over the suicide.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s something you can never unsee,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n In recent shifts, he\u2019s seen a man throw a hedge cutter at his partner\u2019s foot, and has to testify in a Toowoomba court this year for a patient he treated for strangulation.<\/p>\n Locals at another town he frequently works at, Moranbah, described recent horror stories caused by a lack of experienced doctors at the hospital.<\/p>\n Related Article One man\u2019s daughter was turned away for dehydration, which turned out to be sepsis. The man claimed she needed to be rushed to intensive care in Mackay and narrowly survived.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are so often no doctors in that hospital,\u201d he said. \u201cThey get the diagnosis wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n Queensland Health did not respond to questions.<\/p>\n This masthead joined Rose for his Brewarrina posting in November. On the first day, the main hospital was quiet.<\/p>\n Rose spent the morning in the general practice \u2013 treating a paraplegic man for skin wounds, removing sutures from another patient, and investigating a hand tremor for an older woman.<\/p>\n \u201cI like the patients,\u201d he says. \u201cThey get on with me.\u201d<\/p>\n On the second day, as the temperature soared past 30 degrees by 9am, Rose was speaking to a patient, Alan Finegan, on a public bench outside the clinic.<\/p>\n The receptionist hadn\u2019t arrived, so Rose started taking appointments from the kerb, the sprinkler gently spraying the hot pavement.<\/p>\n Finegan had just moved back to Brewarrina and shared his difficulties dealing with his insurer. \u201cYou know what insurance companies are like,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n \u201cMate! They just f— the little person,\u201d Rose responded.<\/p>\n Soon it became clear the receptionist wasn\u2019t coming. Rose let himself into the clinic, and herded patients through the door.<\/p>\n One woman sitting in the waiting room said she hadn\u2019t met Rose before. \u201cI wish he\u2019d shave his beard!\u201d she said with a laugh.<\/p>\n Another patient cut in. \u201cNo, he\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n Brewarrina is a town crying out for experienced doctors.<\/p>\n Annika Frail, who works at the local Aboriginal museum, had no idea she was pregnant when her waters broke in 2022.<\/p>\n Rushed to hospital, she discovered she was 5\u00bd months pregnant, and the baby was coming.<\/p>\n The hospital staff had no idea how to deliver a baby, Frail said, and were panicking. \u201cI thought, \u2018Is this supposed to be a hospital?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The baby was born with chronic respiratory issues, bronchitis and asthma, and Frail must still closely monitor her breathing and coughing.<\/p>\n When she takes her now-three-year-old to the hospital, she says they are often airlifted to Dubbo for basic care.<\/p>\n Frail is a single mother of three children and says the constant travel \u2013 and accompanying expenses \u2013 wouldn\u2019t be necessary if the town hired experienced doctors.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy can\u2019t they do this here?\u201d she asks.<\/p>\n Sitting around a table in the Aboriginal Medical Service clinic, several women discuss their troubles with the local healthcare services.<\/p>\n Aunty Blake grew up on the Brewarrina mission and is now 79. She needs dialysis twice-weekly at an in-demand facility for a town that has high levels of diabetes.<\/p>\n Loreen Coffey, 63, says her mother set up the town\u2019s dialysis machines in the 1990s, but resource shortages meant many elders were now turned away.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re waiting for someone to die so they can take the chair,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s something that needs to be investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n Aunty Di is another elder in the community and says small issues like broken air conditioning at the retirement home, to larger issues like lack of transport to hospitals, need to be addressed.<\/p>\n And above all else, Aunty Di says towns like Brewarrina need practitioners who respect their patients, which in years past has been difficult to come by.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need good doctors,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n The sun was setting with an electric combination of pink, orange and deep blue one night while Rose strolled the suburban streets.<\/p>\n He passed a tall, thin man watching over his sheep, goats and dogs.<\/p>\n Rose struck up a conversation that stretched into 20 minutes, as they covered everything from the man\u2019s methadone prescription to how to catch yellowbelly fish from the river.<\/p>\n \u201cYou learn so much from the people out here,\u201d Rose says, after they shook hands and parted ways.<\/p>\n These spontaneous conversations are frequent as Rose finds easy connection with people by asking about their lives.<\/p>\n After a few days in Brewarrina, the hospital asked Rose to extend his stay by another week. The most he could do was an extra day.<\/p>\n For more than a year, AHPRA kept building its case against Rose. Investigators requested piles of information within tight timeframes, according to documents seen by this masthead, then took months to provide updates.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has been six months and you are still seeking further information,\u201d Rose responded to one email last May. \u201cI have now become deeply depressed and have extreme anxiety. Anything in relation to AHPRA has created a panic disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n In response, an AHPRA employee claimed there was a \u201cclear pathway to resolution\u201d by the end of the year and apologised for the \u201cimpact the investigation is having on you\u201d.<\/p>\n Related Article \u201cWhile it has been six months, judged against how matters were managed historically I think we have made good progress considering the complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n In a lengthy submission filed in July, Rose defended his prescription history of benzodiazepines and other medications, citing literature and observations from his decades in practice.<\/p>\n He acknowledged the identified administrative failures for addiction patients, but said these did not apply to his rural work, which was 95 per cent of his practice.<\/p>\n \u201cThis work is vital, under-serviced, and in great demand,\u201d he said. \u201cI have done so without any complaint.\u201d<\/p>\n By October, AHPRA had broadened its investigation, including an undercover sting of Rose\u2019s prescription of legal nicotine vapes using telehealth, which remains ongoing.<\/p>\n AHPRA does not have powers for covert evidence gathering, and this tactic triggered an own-motion investigation, the outcome of which remains unknown.<\/p>\n By November, Rose\u2019s lawyers sought another update. This time, AHPRA claimed the investigation was \u201cunlikely to conclude before early 2026\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are unable to confirm when the investigation will conclude, or pre-empt what the board\u2019s decision will be,\u201d AHPRA\u2019s lawyers stated.<\/p>\n Rose downloaded Safe Scripts which confirmed none of his patients had doctor-shopped, which was one of the key planks of AHPRA\u2019s risk assessment.<\/p>\n Related Article The uncertainty continued until January 5, when an independent opinion report was delivered to AHPRA. It found most of Rose\u2019s prescriptions included clear dispensing instructions and demonstrated \u201csafe prescribing practices\u201d.<\/p>\n The expert found some of Rose\u2019s prescribing of the addiction patients appeared risky, and criticised the lack of notes for not recording the clinical justification.<\/p>\n AHPRA has strict guidelines around clinical note-taking that are considered vital for safe practice.<\/p>\n The results contained in the independent expert\u2019s report were vastly downgraded from AHPRA\u2019s initial assessment, prompting the regulator to change tack.<\/p>\n The agreement allows Rose to continue his rural work, finding he was \u201cin good standing\u201d in the outback. Its investigation into other aspects of his practice continues.<\/p>\n He will no longer treat addiction patients, terms Rose had already agreed to, acknowledging it had become difficult to maintain treatment from afar. Rose says the whole process has been outrageous.<\/p>\n \u201cExcept for the paperwork, they won\u2019t find anything wrong with me,\u201d he says. \u201cHow has this taken a year? Justice delayed is justice denied.\u201d<\/p>\n Editor’s pick The AHPRA spokesperson said immediate action powers were designed to protect the public, and practitioners have the \u201cright to seek a review or appeal\u201d and make submissions.<\/p>\n \u201cRegular internal reviews are conducted at least every three months by the investigator,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n The spokesperson said AHPRA was conducting an \u201cend-to-end review\u201d of its investigations system and working on a new national strategy to improve timeliness, transparency, procedural fairness and empathy through the process.<\/p>\n AHPRA has \u201calready moved to improve the experience of those involved in the process\u201d, they said.<\/p>\n \u201cDespite the ongoing increase in notifications, AHPRA is resolving more complaints sooner. The average time to close a notification is now the lowest recorded since the National Scheme began.\u201d<\/p>\n Rose has six grandchildren and splits much of his time between Melbourne and the Northern Rivers.<\/p>\n Medicine has never been about making money, he says, and the easier route would be not to have fought AHPRA at all.<\/p>\n When asked what it would mean if AHPRA dropped its investigation, Rose says he would keep doing what he\u2019s been doing.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t see myself stopping,\u201d he says. \u201cI like what I do. I\u2019m providing a good service. I\u2019m happy to keep going while I still can,\u201d he says, pausing a few beats.<\/p>\n \u201cMedicine is a large part of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n If you or anyone you know needs support call Lifeline<\/a> 131 114 or Beyond Blue<\/a> 1300 224 636. 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Rose\u2019s former patients, Daniel and Rachael, in Collingwood. Charlotte Grieve<\/p>\n![\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b9dc5258fb23dbe9b51f1994cebf3f1a9237774c.jpeg\")
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Rose at work at Brewarrina Hospital.Charlotte Grieve<\/p>\n![\"Albury](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b91f3af14da36507db7cf0a4619bc9e895cca4b7.jpeg\")
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Rose began treating Alan Finegan from the kerb when the local clinic receptionist didn\u2019t show up. Charlotte Grieve<\/p>\n![\"Annika](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eb96f7b5cdb1308de0b8e60dd47bc8b762c5ca14.jpeg\")
Annika Frail and her daughter Rhaniya regularly fly to Dubbo for basic medical care. Charlotte Grieve<\/p>\n![\"Loreen](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/00b7d2a00f2a063cf7d5534129d8b847303fde94.jpeg\")
Loreen Coffey (left) and Aunty Blake at the Aboriginal Medical Service clinic. They say more dialysis machines are needed in Brewarrina.Charlotte Grieve<\/p>\n![\"Aunty](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7231b89fe36a711efcd79efce68d77565123b77b.jpeg\")
Aunty Di says Brewarrina needs to attract permanent, experienced doctors. Charlotte Grieve<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1392425274621a9b34cf7a53fede920ccf6db76e.jpeg\")
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