Breaking news: ICGP withdraws from HSE Clinical Care Programmes

By Lloyd Mudiwa. GP relations with the Government have hit rock bottom with the ICGP, the professional body for GPs in Ireland, withdrawing with immediate effect from the HSE Clinical Care Programmes due to the latest round of FEMPI cuts announced by the Government. The ICGP has informed the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly, who is a qualified GP, that it is to withdraw its GP Clinical Leads from the Programmes immediately — a move which could impact on the Government’s overall health reform programme. This is especially because the withdrawal comes at a time when the Competition Authority…