Free GP care will be extended to 500,000 people each year for five years, under an ambitious plan to reform the health service.

Devising a cross-party health strategy was a very good idea. It did away with the need for opposition politicians to pick apart a vision for the simple selfish reason that it wasn’t their own, writes Catherine Shanahan.

Shifting care out of hospitals and into the primary care, community setting is at the heart of a plan to radically transform Irish healthcare.