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IHCA Research and Policy Executive Daniel Costigan, reviews the Association’s recent pre-Budget Submission, which has called for health spending to be based on more realistic, verifiable projections

The ICGP has published its pre-budget submission, in which it is calling on the Department of Finance to increase funding allocated for general practice to facilitate the management of chronic illnesses in the community and building of general practice capacity.

A supplementary budget will be required for the Department of Health again this year, the IMO has warned.

Martin Varley, IHCA Secretary General, examines what impact recent budget cuts have had on the health services and what Budget 2016 needs to do to remedy these failings.

The Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) has proposed to Government an Early Access Scheme (EAS) for new medicines, modelled along the lines of the HSE’s hepatitis C early access scheme, so that Irish patients can be among the first in Europe to have new medicines.

The NAGP has called on the Government in its pre-Budget 2015 submission to set up a specific ‘transfer to primary care’ programme addressing the moving of hospital services into the community and to implement a targeted investment programme in the sector.

The ICGP is due to meet the new Minister for Health Dr Leo Varadkar formally today (September 18) to discuss the various challenges facing general practice.

By Gary Culliton.

By Gary Culliton.

By Gary Culliton.