Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

My colleague, Ms Yvonne O'Neill, will comment on GP out-of-hours services and paediatrics in a moment. In terms of what changed, we engaged with the IMO, in particular, and agreed with it that participating GPs could provide up to an additional eight sessions a week, with five to seven during the week and one on a Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., if I am right. So far, I believe 1,100 GPs across 700 practices have signed up. Based on the reimbursement data for the first week or two of that, about 17,000 additional contacts or consultations have occurred.

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