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- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024)
David Cullinane: 73. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase access to rural GP and local health care services; to report on his engagements with his Department and Health Service Executive officials and an organisation (details supplied) regarding the development of a directly employed GP contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9680/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. The Government is working to increase the number of GPs practicing in the State and thereby improve access to GP services across the country....