Sir, – I would be in favour of free GP care if the country were awash with GPs and with adequate infrastructure. It is not. General practice is the bucket of the health service and as the Government measures increase the flow, the surplus will flood towards the hospitals. Waiting times for both will increase and the only people that will benefit are those in the private sector. The two-tier system will worsen. Clearly our politicians, as with the medical card fiasco, will have to see it to believe it. – Yours, etc,
Dr ELUNED LAWLOR,
Loughboy Medical Centre,
Kilkenny.