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THE TRICKLE OF parents registering for free GP care for the under sixes has shown that there will not be a rush of children being needlessly brought to doctors surgeries, the Minister for Health has claimed.
Leo Varadkar made the comment as the scheme reached the landmark of 100,000 children being signed up.
Concerns still surround the service, with 14% of GPs yet to put their name to it.
The 100,000 who have signed up, combined with 150,000 children with existing medical cards, represents 60% of all under-sixes.
The Minister said he expects more parents to register over coming months.
“This gradual registration shows that parents are not rushing to be able to bring their children to a doctor and are likely to attend only as their child needs to be seen,” the Minister for Health said.
It reassures me that concerns that parents will flood GP surgeries with children who do not need to see a doctor are not well founded.
Varadkar previously told GPs opposed to the scheme to “cop on” and is still facing opposition from members of the National Organisation of General Practitioners (NAGP) who say it will substantially increase their workloads.
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What is a theoretical physicist specialising in string theory to do?
Poor Sheldon Cooper misses out again. Bazinga!
Well done to Englert and Higgs. Thanks to one of my daughters I have an interest in all of this. (Still don’t really understand it mind you)
You see Higgs isn’t just a theoretical physicist. He worked in the field.
Paarrr-tay at Higgs gaff!
Sheldon must be gutted!
I was just going to say that lol poor Sheldon
And yet I’m still only getting 3mb broadband
Its 2mb faster then mine
Deadly! Seeing Higg at the announcement in CERN last year that they had found the God particle almost 50 years after he made the proposal was a great moment.
Higgs, Higgs,….Hurrah! :I
Well done great discovery. Delighted for them.
Great to see both of them live long enough to see their theory proven, and they fully deserve the Nobel prize.
Good job they did love long enough, because they don’t award them posthumously. Plenty of geniuses missed out on a Nobel prize by dying too soon.
*live
I dont know what a tracker morgage is ?
Congratulations to Peter Higgs.
But what if the speed of light varies through
time and space? What if natural constants aren’t
that constant?
That would maybe indicate that consciousness has
existed since the beginning of the universe, and
that the universe is much larger than we
imagine.
Interested? Then read my philosophical
multiverse theory.
Proven? more holes then a tea bag if you ask me. The Standard Model is as much a religious belief as Christianity is.
I wonder why it took 50 years to confirm their theory?
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