The Minister for Health Simon Harris has said he wants to see more children receive free GP care in the future. Mr Harris said it was Government policy to extend the existing free service which covers children up to the age of six. However, he said the issue of extending the scope of the existing free GP care scheme was “an unfinished piece of work”. The proposed accord would see the IMO drop its objection in principle to the Government’s plans to extend free GP care to further cohorts of children, potentially up to age 12 . It is understood the proposed agreement would not involve GPs providing additional hours of service for medical card patients.

Source: The Irish Times April 03, 2019 12:56 UTC