Submission of the Irish College of General Practitioners to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health in Relation to Primary Care Expansion: Building capacity in GP led Primary Care: Essential for health system transformation and sustainable health care

Author: ICGP

Publication Year: 2017

Contents

Section 1 - Opening statement
Introduction
Stronger primary care
Action points identified by the ICGP

Section 2 - Briefing document
ICGP perspectives on the expansion of primary care
Primary care teams and general practice teams
Primary care centres
GP diagnostics
Approach towards complex medical needs and long term illnesses
Strategic focus on building nursing home care and social care
Further development of GP co-operatives
Non GP led elements of primary care
Secondary care factors relevant to expansion of primary care
Conclusion
List of appended documents

Description

On Wednesday 29 November, two representatives of the ICGP, Dr Brendan O'Shea, Director of the Post Graduate Research Centre, and Dr Mark Murphy, Chair of Communications, attended the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health in relation to 'Primary Care Expansion' as recommended in the Sláintecare Report produced by the then Committee on the Future of Healthcare.

Format	Download
Keywords	health policy, strategic planning, primary care
Publisher	Irish College of General Practitioners
Classification	health policy
Pages	11
Categories:	Reports, Irish Content, ICGP Resources