Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare
General Practice in Disadvantaged Areas
9:00 am
Kate 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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