{"id":298492,"date":"2025-12-04T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298492\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:05:07","slug":"northern-irelands-gp-services-in-crisis-stormont-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298492\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland&#8217;s GP services in crisis, Stormont report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report concluded that the challenges faced by patients have resulted in delayed care, reduced confidence in the GP system, and a notable shift in patient behaviour towards out-of-hours services, emergency departments, and private healthcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said that as a result, many patients have reported deterioration of conditions, prolonged illness, challenges in managing chronic disease, delays in obtaining test results and difficulties accessing medication reviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The DoH said it welcomed the PAC report and it would &#8220;consider the committee&#8217;s findings and recommendations fully&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statement from the department added: &#8220;There is full agreement on the need for a new vision for primary care and new models of delivery that will meet the need for improved and more equitable access.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British Medical Association, the trade union representing GPs, said the report highlights &#8220;the urgent need for strategic action by the Department of Health to stabilise a sector in crisis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The current access proposals from the Department are harming patient access, not working and will not have the outcome for patients they hope for,&#8221; Dr Frances O&#8217;Hagan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report concluded that the challenges faced by patients have resulted in delayed care, reduced confidence in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-298492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}