{"id":632433,"date":"2026-09-22T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632433\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:44:19","slug":"monaghan-gp-says-ireland-face-significant-gp-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632433\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaghan GP says Ireland face significant GP shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Monaghan GP is warning that rural Ireland is facing a significant shortage of GPs, with patients in some areas waiting days for an appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Illona Duffy was speaking as concerns continue over access to GP services, with more than half of people in rural Ireland reportedly waiting two days or more to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>She said County Monaghan has around 50 GPs per 100,000 people, compared with the HSE recommendation of 100, making it one of the worst served areas in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Duffy said high costs, a lack of cover and limited support are making it difficult for rural practices to attract younger doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Joe Finnegan Show this morning, she said people with urgent problems are being seen most of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Monaghan GP is warning that rural Ireland is facing a significant shortage of GPs, with patients in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-632433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}