Plans to have GPs working in emergency departments like 'robbing Peter to pay Paul'

Any plan to have GPs working alongside consultants in hospital emergency departments could result in an 'extraordinarily efficient service' but it will not work as a stop-gap measure, according to a leading GP in Cork.

Dr Mary Favier was responding to an approach by Cork University Hospital to GPs across the city, urging them to sign up for shifts in the A&E.