Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Would the introduction of near-patient testing help with that? I have no expertise in this area, but I have spoken to people who say individuals do not like to leave the surgery without a prescription. Their thinking is that as they have paid their money, they want to get something for it. In the event that general practice had access to near-patient testing, would that enable the doctor to be able to target infections with specific rather than broad spectrum drugs?.