Rejigged GP lists planned

The HSE is “actively seeking to address” various issues for rural GPs with the IMO, including reorganising lists with existing doctors in local areas, the Minister for Primary Care has revealed. More flexible contractual arrangements that would encourage young GPs to work in such areas are also set to be developed. Isolated rural and deprived urban areas, very often with limited private practice opportunities, found it difficult to attract GPs to fill vacant posts, Minister of State Kathleen Lynch said in the Dáil. The matter, she said, would be examined as part of the overall GMS contract discussions between the…