€45,000 per year GP incentive not enough to attract rural doctors

If one were to listen to someone like the HSE’s Director of Primary Care John Hennessy talk about Primary Health Care in rural Ireland, it all sounds very exciting, well thought-out and progressive; a great way to bring health care into the rural communities of our Republic and help to keep both rural communities and those that live in them alive and ticking.

In an Oireachtas Committee debate held earlier this month, Mr Hennessy spoke of the HSE’s commitment to ensuring patients throughout the country have access to appropriate health care.

This, he said, included primary care and general practitioner services.