We are doctors who work in Ireland, who believe that we can implement universal healthcare. We cannot afford not to. #DoctorsForUHC #Slaintecare
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12 Apr 2025
Here’s @McGlackenByrne on #universalprimarycare in Ireland. @DoctorsForChoice
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3 Feb 2025
Here's an article I wrote about the health system
3 Feb 2025
Doctor: Universal Healthcare for Ireland seems further away now than ever jrnl.ie/6607653t
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11 Nov 2024
Are you a registered medical professional and interested in #UniversalHeathcare #UHC? Please come to our online meeting this Wednesday (13th November) at 6pm. See details below!
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12 Aug 2023
It’s progress….but in European terms we’re still way short of the mark
All Primary Care should be effectively available to all citizens and nowhere should cost be a barrier to essential services
@IMT_latest @NewstalkFM @gmcrotty @illonaduffy #Europe @RCGP_RoI @JeanCallanan
11 Aug 2023
Great to see parents of 6 & 7 year olds not have to pay for GP consults.
As a GP this is very good for practices (brings resources, subsidies, investment).
Capacity is already an issue. And an increase in (appropriate) demand requires an urgent on focus retention strategies.
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12 Aug 2023
Supporting GPs to survive & thrive is crucial if we are to boost capacity & advance towards #UHC.
#Under8 #DVC is a really positive development. No parent should have to pay when their child is sick. And this policy will support practices financially.
11 Aug 2023
Minister for Health encourages families to register for free GP care for children aged 6 & 7 gov.ie/en/press-release/1b13…
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Implementing universal healthcare for patients in Ireland, resourcing health system capacity in our communities & hospitals, improving morale & retention. All this can be done, with sufficient political will. We can make #uhc happen.
9 Aug 2023
Sarah Harte: We could fund universal healthcare — the issue is whether we want to irishexaminer.com/opinion/co…
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Universal DVCs for Under 8s
Up to 400,000 getting access to GPs
Extension contraception scheme to Under 45s
Hypertension programme for patients
Steps towards #UHC, addressing cost of living challenges, aligning with #slaintecare & crucially agreed with the IMO. More of this.
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26 Oct 2022
The way to break the cycle is by investing massively in public system capacity & more importantly by clarifying our shared values around healthcare.
We remain the only nation in Western Europe without universal healthcare. The status quo will not change until we change it. (2/2)
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26 Oct 2022
Our policy of continually outsourcing hospital waiting lists to the private sector ultimately produces the opposite of what is intended.
After 20 years of growing reliance on the National Treatment Purchase Fund, waiting lists are longer than ever. (1/2)
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27 Sep 2022
Progress towards #universalhealthcare in #Budget2023
🔹 6-7 year olds to get Doctor Visit Cards
🔹 400,000 suffering from the cost of living crisis to get DVCs (though not wider primary access through GMS cards…)
🔹 Contraception care increased up to those who are 30.
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28 Apr 2022
This is a very positive move from @DonnellyStephen. The cost of accessing healthcare is prohibitive for so many patients & families. Hospitals, GPs, primary care. But… lots more to do. #doctorsforuhc #universalhealthcare
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19 Apr 2022
Doctors want to work in a fairer healthcare system, but healthcare workers need to be treated fairly too. If the first 10 years of a doctor’s experience is a sleep-deprived battle of attrition, we won’t have the staff to provide #universalhealthcare. UHC means #standingup4NCHDs.
19 Apr 2022
"Despite two years of lauding and applauding our health service and endless political platitudes about the debt we owe our health service staff, relations between doctors and the government could hardly be worse"
#StandingUp4NCHDs
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19 Apr 2022
Ireland is unique, not offering public fertility treatments for women & couples. Costs for GP component of care & large costs for private fertility care, which is increasingly corporatised, documented below. This should be offered in a public healthcare system. #doctorsforuhc
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9 Mar 2022
This is one reason why we need Universal Healthcare in Ireland. Implementing #slaintecare is one way to achieve this @DoctorsForUHC. Parents feel abandoned over lack of health services rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/030… via @rte
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9 Mar 2022
It is heartbreaking working in a system that lets people down. >800,000 people in Ireland are on waiting lists. I like many other doctors want better than this for our patients. I hope this lovely man I saw 4 years ago has finally gotten the care he deserves @DoctorsForUHC
One NCHD reflected on a patient who she referred urgently for specialist care, only to see the same patient two years later (in the middle of a 48-month waiting list). All the time their suffering increasing. #universalhealthcare
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We heard about the terrible impact of the National Treatment Purchase Fund on public healthcare services, meaning younger surgeons remain untrained, with complex patients having to be re-referred back from private hospitals, eroding continuity of care.
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One NCHD reflected on a patient who she referred urgently for specialist care, only to see the same patient two years later (in the middle of a 48-month waiting list). All the time their suffering increasing. #universalhealthcare
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We heard from Obstetricians reflecting on the absence of fertility treatments for public patients, the lack of access to contraceptive care or unequal access to abortion services. #universalhealthcare
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@doctorsforuhc met this evening!
So heartening to meet to so many colleagues - of all experience and speciality - reflect on the major problems impacting our patients and the obvious solutions which are available #universalhealthcare.
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We heard of patients having to pay GPs and suffer financial hardship just because they have a mental health crisis. #universalhealthcare
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But... We heard a resounding belief that change - #universalhealthcare - can happen in Ireland.
If you'd like to join our group, please contact us.
@doctorsforuhc @DonnellyStephen
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