Out-of-hours doctors’ co-ops will collapse if the proposal to roll out free GP care to all in the next five years is followed through, the chair of the Irish Association of GP Co-operatives has warned, writes Catherine Shanahan.

Out-of-hours doctors’ co-ops will collapse if the proposal to roll out free GP care to all in the next five years is followed through, the chair of the Irish Association of GP Co-operatives has warned.

EIGHT patients of one Dublin hospital sent to Britain for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) returned in worse health.

A €20 million inquiry into the retention by hospitals of organs of dead children may never look beyond the three hospitals it took five years to investigate.