'Free GP care for all plan requires road-map and more doctors'

Other changes to 'overhaul' the system include training more GPs and funding care in deprived areas.

The expansion of free GP care to all first requires a road-map and more GPs in place, otherwise it will “waterlog” the system, a leading GP has claimed.

Dr Tadhg Crowley, Irish Medical Organisation GP committee chair, was responding to calls for action on a decade-old Government plan.