Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare

General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas

9:00 am

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the obsession with the deprivation index, is there any reason people might be stigmatised as a result of being in a sort of a higher-risk category? Normally, GMS patients are all the one and the same and the GP gets a certain payment. The HSE issued a card to those who contracted hepatitis from contaminated blood or blood products and there was some name on it, which I cannot remember, but it was inappropriate. Will the patient be any more aware?

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