Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Looking to the NHS in the UK, where mistakes have been made - the same as mistakes were made in the Irish system - was anything done there that we should seek to avoid in the context of developing our system? I visited GP surgeries in the UK. I came across one practice where all GPs resigned on the same day. There were 20,000 patients left without a doctor. All of the doctors involved were employed by the State. I do not know what the issue was, but 20,000 patients were left without a GP service. Are there other issues relating to the NHS that we should look at in order to ensure that we do not make the same mistake?