Can I have this new contract, please?

Wicklow GP Dr Truls Christiansen gives his recipe for a workable new GP contract. I have a vision of a new GP contract in which we as providers will get good satisfaction for work delivered, and in which the user of our service, the patient, will get a fair, one-tier system of health delivery. It will be a system the paymaster — the Government — will be proud of it. For it to happen we need to accept a number of things. Firstly, Ireland needs to increase the proportion of its health budget that is spent on primary care from…