The essentials of healthcare reform

Last week’s public meeting to promote a new consensus statement on Health brought together patients, politicians, and doctors. Lloyd Mudiwa reports Resourcing of GP-led primary care is essential to the reform of the health system in Ireland, and it is now time to take action, all four speakers at last week’s Dublin meeting of the Primary Care Partnership, hosted by the NAGP, concurred. However, among this ‘consensus’, there were divergent views on reaching this outcome. “The reason I am here this evening — and I haven’t been on very many podiums for a few years because I have stayed out…