Dr. Brian Osborne:

Pharmacies are valued members of primary care teams. The counselling primary care service was established in 2013 in collaboration with the Irish College of General Practitioners and the HSE, and in that time 10,500 patients have been seen and 63,000 counselling sessions have been attended, with approximately 200 councillors throughout the country on part-time contracts. This should be extended. It should provide psychology and not just counselling. It works and it should be extended.