Dr. Susan O'Dwyer:

Work was done in 2016 and 2017. We can share that report. I do not have the exact detail on how all the figures were worked through but we can certainly submit that if necessary. We looked at the number and types of conditions being treated in a GP setting and the types of medications we know can be used to treat minor ailments. We looked at dispensing data in the State and could say this is the number of incidents of particular illnesses being treated in a GP setting. If we take that out of GPs' workload, we could free up 1 million consultations. We worked it out as something like 100 full-time equivalent hours' worth of capacity in that sector, just by introducing a service such as this.