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CIARÁN LYNCH TD ADVICE CENTRES Labour Party Offices, Bandon Road Friday Ballyphehane Community Centre, Tory Top Road Friday Constituency Office Saturday Stables Bar, Main Street, Carrigaline Monday Mahon Community Centre (first Friday of every month)

Constituency Office: 29 St. Patricks Mills, Douglas, Cork @CiaranLynchTD Ciarán Lynch

5.30 pm 7.00 pm 10.00 am 5.30 pm 10.30 am

Phone: 021 436 6200 Fax: 021 436 6202 Email: ciaran.lynch@oir.ie Web: www.ciaranlynch.ie

FREE GP CARE FOR UNDER 6s & OVER 70s The rollout of free GP care for children aged under 6 is good news for local families.

Many people worry about the cost of bringing their child to the doctor and parents often have to bring young children to the doctor a couple of times a year. So free GP care for children under 6 will make a real difference to a family's household budget.

Labour in government has also ensured that adults aged over 70 will benefit from free GP care. This means that from this summer, up to 300,000 children and older people who currently have to pay to see their GP will no longer have to.

But free GP care is about more than reducing the day-to-day cost of living for families and pensioners. The enhanced primary care services being rolled out mean that the Under 6s will benefit from a new, landmark asthma cycle of care programme and preventative wellness checks. Adults of all ages will benefit from the new diabetes care programme.

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This is the first step in the phased introduction of a universal, free GP service. It marks a shift towards promoting health and wellbeing that will benefit our health system as a whole. It is also an important milestone in achieving Labour’s priority of enhancing primary care and keeping people well in their own community.