For the 2,244 or so family Doctors who treat public patients, their potential work load has increases

This increase must be driven from other areas besides unemployment and those on the live register which are relatively unchanged over the period 300k and 14.7% – 14.3%  respectively. This situation is more of a reflection of the current economic environment; falling incomes and other calls on disposable income. More needs to be done to understand  the sources of these increases.ignificantly over the period from Jan 2010 to end Q1 2012. The numbers of medical cards issued at the end of March 2012 now stand at the highest level in its 40 years of operation since 1972.

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