Reilly: no ‘inappropriate’ competition change

By Gary Culliton. The Minister for Health has already held discussions with fellow Ministers Brendan Howlin and Richard Bruton and with the Competition Authority, and a four-way meeting at official level with the Department of Health is planned, which will now seek to “thrash-out” issues related to a pledged change in competition law. Dr James Reilly urged the IMO to also attend, “for the betterment of patients”. In regard to a mooted enhanced role for primary care, “much of what is envisaged can be done without a new contract”, said Dr Reilly, during his visit to the IMO AGM in…