Lynn Ruane (Independent)
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When GPs carry out the training, they are granted the list and are able to take on patients for methadone or other options. There seems to be something happening in some counties outside Dublin where people need treatment. The doctors are saying they have done the training and have signed up but are not receiving any patients. However, other doctors are receiving many patients. Who decides where patients go? Will Dr. Kenny explain the process to me? When a GP says they want to go on the list and be a doctor who provides that care, what is happening in the decision-making? A patient may be saying they want to be with the doctor who is closest to them but there seems to be someone else making the decision that they are going to go to another doctor. Some doctors are saying they have been given no patients while other doctors in the next town over has loads of patients but they are also from closer to our community.