People earning less than €46,000 a year no longer have to pay for GP appointments.
In Budget 2023, the Government announced that people who earn €46,000 or less would be eligible for free GP visits from April this year.
Minister Donnelly is due to address the IMO’s annual general meeting today and members say they are struggling to cope with higher demand for their services. “That the plans they have at the present minute aren’t working and that the politically generated health crisis that is going to come through the issuing of half a million doctor visit cards will, I think, be the zenith of the failure of health policy and will lead to very significant problems.”Over the winter, Irish hospitals came under huge pressure amid a surge of COVID-19 and flu patients; t
“I think the main focus is on the capacity of the Irish health service to meet the demand that is presently there,” Dr McCauley said.
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