Thousands more GPs are needed in Ireland to deal with the ‘workforce crisis’.
That's according to Dr Diarmuid Quinlan, the Medical Director of the Irish College of General Practitioners, who says that government agencies agree there should be at least about 50 per cent more GPs. The west Cork doctor says that “every GP is trying to do the work of one and a half GPs”.
“Currently we have about 4,000 GPs in the country, and we should have about 6,000,” Dr Quinlan said, adding that there was also a “huge” shortage of GP nurses. "It is them who do all the childhood vaccines and a huge number of the Covid and flu vaccines.
