Budget must reverse damage done to general practice

How many businesses can survive a drop in payments of 35%-40% from the main purchaser of its services? asks Dr Catherine O’Donohoe.  

At the start of September, I read a headline that Health Minister Simon Harris wants to extend free GP care to all children under 18 in the next five years.

I shook my head then and continue to shake it. I reluctantly signed the under-6 contract in 2015; at present both I and our practice nurse run at more or less full appointment capacity.