KPIs at odds with compassionate practice

Dr Laura Noonan, a GP Principal in Ballymahon in Longford and Ballymore in Westmeath since last August, recounts why the corporate model of general practice was not the career path for her After completion of my GP training, I began work as a GP Assistant, which was certainly a good option in the early months after finishing my GP training scheme while I actually seriously considered what ‘I wanted to be when I grew up’. I found myself removed from the cocoon of my safe, protected HSE job after eagerly anticipating that day for four years, and the anti-climax I…