Large numbers of GMS lists are ‘under review’

IMO GPs have called for a review of the basic management structures in the administration of the GMS scheme, “given the impact on and suffering faced by many vulnerable patients”. The union’s national GPs’ meeting also demanded that the Minister for Health instruct management at the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) to “implement fair and transparent mechanisms for medical card reviews” and for a streamlining of the application and review process. Monaghan GP Dr Illona Duffy said: “There is nothing working. People are losing cards. Patients are not getting letters when their cards are being reviewed. Minister [Alex] White has…