Reader's Blog: When GPs fail in their duty of care to patients

Recent news items have highlighted GPs’ increasing workloads, patient suicides, GPs moving abroad, and patients who are unable to register with a GP having to access care via A&E and more. All these situations are worrying for Irish patients.

But patients experiences with GPs have not been mentioned. Recent stories in ‘Victims of the HSE’ mailbox include patients asked to remove themselves from their GP list, GPs refusing to take on patients, GPs failing to refer patients for tests, and GPs charging for blood tests. They claim the charge is not for the blood test per se, but for the courier.