New GP online suite was the ‘high point’ of the year

IMO AGM 2012 Gary Culliton spoke with IMO GP Chair Dr Mary Gray in advance of the organisation’s annual meeting, about medical card centralisation, out-of-hours, fees and the pressures practices face. GP practices survived to the end of 2011 but “not with certainty that they will be able to survive 2012”, the IMO GP Chair, Dr Mary Gray, has said. Visits from private, fee-paying patients have dropped by almost one-third, from 1.5 to 1.2 visits per year on average, databases at large practices show. In recent years, GMS income has fallen by 24 per cent (including 17 per cent in…