Possible supplementary budget for free GP care

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 16 April 2015 | 22.40

The Government has not ruled out a supplementary budget to implement the proposal for free GP care for all children under the age of six towards the end of the year.

Speaking in the Dáil this morning, Minister of State at the Department of Health Kathleen Lynch said a supplementary budget may be needed. 

She was responding to Fianna Fáil's Billy Kelleher, who asked where the money would come from as it had not been identified in the original estimates.

Minister Lynch said: "We may need a supplementary budget towards the end of the year - right now we don't need it".

She assured the house that any supplementary budget would not come out of any other area of health.

The Irish Medical Organisation reached an agreement last week on free GP care for children under six.

However, the Executive Council of the National Association of General Practitioners has decided to reject the GP contract, that was agreed between the Department of Health and the IMO.

It is now up to individual GPs to accept or reject the new contract.

Meanwhile, Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has called on Hospital Managers and Chief Financial Officers get a grip of budgets.

Speaking in the Dáil this morning, he said in January and February this year, the number of people attending Emergency Departments reduced.

"What happened", he said, "was that hospitals spent more money, hired more staff and saw fewer patients."

Minister Varadkar said such a situation was not acceptable.

"It's important that hospital managers and chief financial officers understand and get a grip on that over the next few months", he said.  


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