Practices’ extra dose of inflation

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Practices’ extra dose of inflation

Tim Malloy

Thursday 12 May 2022, 09:59 AM

There’s national inflation and then there is inflation for general practices [Image: alexsl on iStock]

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Inflation specific to general practice is far outstripping that of the Consumer Price Index, writes Tim Malloy, who posits a GP boycott of some services if the Budget doesn’t sort this

A funding increase of 2.78 per cent does not cover cost pressure increases of between 14 and 17 per cent It’s the Government’s Budget month, and

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