IMO rejects DoH GP claim

The IMO has taken issue with reports from the HSE and Department of Health that GP numbers have remained stable in recent years and that reports of an exodus are exaggerated. The figures, the union says, are completely misleading and an attempt to confuse debate on the issue. Dr Ray Walley, Chairman of the IMO GP Committee, said more than 150 new GPs qualified each year, yet we were seeing no increase in the numbers practising. “That means simply that our newly qualified GPs are leaving this country to work abroad as we warned they would. The Government and Department…