Contract’s ‘constraint on skillsets’ exposed

GPs “cannot use their skillsets” due to the constraints of the current GP contract, the IMO GP Chair, Dr Ray Walley, has said. “General practice training in this country continues for four years and involves medicine and other areas of paediatrics, obstetrics and so on,” said Dr Walley. “Pilots have been conducted in Ireland on, for example, diabetes shared care and these have been progressed considerably to the point where they are almost at contract level. The evidence with the pilots is that not only do we provide better care and better statistics in regard to mobility and mortality than the…