Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners
Mr. Fintan Foy:
I will make a couple of points on that. We are aware the Minister has welcomed the report, and one of our colleagues had a meeting with the Minister earlier this week. We were also invited to input into the terms of reference of the strategic review, and I think that was as a result of the output of this report. There is that level of engagement and we would be very encouraged by that. To go back to the point regarding our relationship with the IMO, we have a very good working relationship with it and would engage with it regularly. The success of the roll-out of the chronic disease management programme, which was a very strong engagement between the IMO, which negotiated it, and the delivery of the educational aspects from the ICGP, is an indication of that relationship.
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