The nationwide shortage of GPs has been discussed in the media a lot over the last few years and its no different urban or rural . You havent said whethet you think its worse in urban or rural areas . You are lucky if your loca practice has managed to recruit a young doctorNear me a new GP practice is about to open and they have a banner advertising for new patients.
Seems to be plenty of GPs in training or just out of it. My own practice has three GPs under 35. They take new patients.
Maybe an urban/rural thing at work here.
It has recruited three of them (urban area).You are lucky if your loca practice has managed to recruit a young doctor
It has recruited three of them (urban area).
I pay €70 per visit which might have something to do with it though.
Ireland now graduates more physicians per head than nearly anywhere else, double the OECD average. See https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/els-2023-1658-en/index.html (here).
If the price is rightDo you do out of hours?
It looks as if it is. Maybe someone from the HSE or whatever body deals with the visit GP card could enlighten us?It would be interesting to see if private only patients on a Saturday is against this rule
The GP sector is blighted by doctors burned out by overwork. I know a number who quit altogether because they had almost destroyed themselves by working all sorts of unsustainable hours. I'd be very wary if my own GP was doing that.We picked a doctor partly because they were open evenings and weekends as we both work full time.
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