A live 12-minute consultation with an Irish Medical Council registered GP, by video or phone. You talk to the doctor; the doctor decides. There is no questionnaire standing in for a consultation.
€35 Monday to Friday 8am–5pm, €50 evenings, weekends and bank holidays. Same-day slots are common but depend on availability — the next free time is shown on the booking card before you pay.
Consultations are with GPs registered with the Irish Medical Council. See our doctors.
If it is an emergency, do not book
Chest pain, severe breathing difficulty, stroke symptoms, heavy bleeding, loss of consciousness, sudden confusion, or thoughts of harming yourself all need 999 or 112, or an emergency department, now. Our booking questionnaire screens for these and will stop you before you pay — but do not wait for that. Everything else on this page assumes you are not in that situation.
WHAT YOU ARE BUYING
A Consultation, Not a Questionnaire
The fee buys a doctor's time and a doctor's judgement. What that judgement concludes is up to the doctor — which is the difference between a medical service and a vending machine.
A live consultation, not a form
You speak to a doctor. There is no questionnaire that decides your treatment on the GP’s behalf — the GP assesses you in the consultation and makes the clinical decision themselves.
Video or phone, your choice
You pick video or phone when you book. Phone is not offered when you are booking for a child, because a GP assessing a child needs to see them.
A 12-minute appointment
Consultation slots are 12 minutes. That is enough for one problem discussed properly — if you have several unrelated issues, say so at the start so the GP can prioritise or arrange follow-up.
An IMC-registered Irish GP
Every doctor on the platform is registered with the Irish Medical Council, and their registration is checked before they can take a booking. Their registration number appears on anything they issue you.
Nothing shared without your consent
Consultations are encrypted, the platform is GDPR compliant, and your record is not sent to anyone — including your own GP practice — unless you ask for it.
One price, shown before you pay
€35 Monday to Friday 8am–5pm and €50 at every other time, including bank holidays. The price for the slot you pick is displayed before you enter card details, and there is no separate charge for a certificate, referral or summary.
HOW IT WORKS
What Actually Happens, Step by Step
Four stages, none of them a surprise.
1
Pick a slot and pay
Live availability and the price for each time are shown on the booking card. You pick video or phone, and can ask for a male or female doctor.
2
Answer the pre-consultation questions
A short questionnaire covering your symptoms, history and medications. It also screens for emergencies — if you flag one, we stop you and point you at 999.
3
Wait in the online waiting room
Open the link at your appointment time and you land in a waiting room. It connects you automatically the moment your GP starts the consultation. No download, no app.
4
Speak to the GP, then collect what they issue
Anything the GP issues appears in your account as a signed PDF. A prescription goes to your nominated pharmacy over Healthmail at the same time.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Five Things a Consultation Can Produce
This is the complete list, not a sample of a longer one. Each is a signed PDF that lands in your account, issued where the GP judges it appropriate.
A medical certificate
A private certificate for an employer, school, college or exam board covering a stated period, where the GP judges one is warranted. It carries their Medical Council registration number and a QR code an employer can check.
A prescription, sent to your pharmacy
Where a prescription is clinically appropriate, it is signed and transmitted to the pharmacy you nominate over Healthmail, the HSE-approved secure clinical email service. Healthmail is the only route we use.
A referral letter
A specialty-addressed letter with the reason for referral and a clinical summary, so the service you are referred to can triage you. It gets you into a queue; it does not create an appointment.
A consultation summary
A written record of what was discussed, the assessment and the plan — useful to bring to your own GP or a specialist. It covers this consultation only; we do not hold your wider medical history.
A receipt
An itemised receipt for the fee, which is what you need for a health-insurance claim or to claim tax relief on medical expenses. Whether a claim is allowed is a matter for your insurer or Revenue.
None of these is guaranteed by paying
A certificate, a prescription and a referral are all clinical decisions. If the GP assesses you and concludes one is not appropriate, they will not issue it, and the consultation fee still applies — you paid for the assessment and you received it. Any service that promises you a specific document before a doctor has seen you is promising something a doctor cannot honestly promise. See exactly which certificates and letters a GP can issue.
OUT OF SCOPE
What an Online Consultation Cannot Do
Six limits, four of which you are asked to acknowledge inside the booking flow before you pay. Better you read them here first.
Anything urgent or life-threatening
Chest pain, severe breathing difficulty, stroke symptoms, heavy bleeding, loss of consciousness, sudden confusion, or a mental-health crisis with thoughts of harming yourself. The booking flow screens for these and will stop you.
Instead: Call 999 or 112, or go to your nearest emergency department. Do not wait for an appointment.
Repeat prescriptions and renewals
A consultation is for a new or changed problem. Renewing a medicine you are already established on is a different service with a different price, and you have to acknowledge that limit before a consultation booking completes.
Instead: Use the repeat prescription service — a GP reviews your request without a video call.
Controlled drugs
Sedatives, sleeping tablets and opioid painkillers are not prescribed through this service at all, whatever the consultation concludes. This is a fixed platform limit, not a judgement about you.
Instead: Your own GP practice, which holds your records and can monitor you properly.
Ongoing management of a chronic condition
Long-term conditions need continuity, monitoring and someone holding your full record. A one-off remote consultation is the wrong instrument, and the booking flow says so before you pay.
Instead: A GP practice you are registered with. We can write to them, but we cannot replace them.
Anything needing a physical examination
Listening to your chest, palpating your abdomen, taking your blood pressure, swabs and bloods. If the GP concludes an examination is needed, they will tell you so — and the fee still applies, because you paid for the assessment.
Instead: An in-person GP appointment, a walk-in clinic, or the emergency department if it is urgent.
Driver, insurance and social-welfare forms
The NDLS driver medical report, the Department of Social Protection Certificate of Incapacity for Work, insurance and occupational-health reports and firearms medicals all need either an examination or access to your full record.
Instead: See the full list of forms an online GP cannot sign, with the body that handles each one.
The higher price reflects out-of-hours cover, not a longer or different appointment — both are the same 12-minute consultation with the same doctors. No subscription, no membership, and no separate charge for a certificate, referral or summary where the GP issues one. If what you actually need is a medicine you are already established on renewed, that is a prescription-only request from €25 instead. See full pricing.
Yes. You book a 12-minute appointment and speak to a General Practitioner registered with the Irish Medical Council, by video or by phone — whichever you choose when booking. It is a live consultation: the doctor assesses you, asks questions, and makes the clinical decisions themselves. Their Medical Council registration number appears on anything they issue you, so you can check them on the IMC register afterwards.
How quickly can I see an online GP?
It depends on availability, and the booking card on this page shows you the truth rather than a promise — it lists the next free slots and how far away the earliest one is, before you enter any details. Same-day appointments are common but they are not guaranteed, and there is no queue-jumping option. If nothing is free when you need it, you will see that immediately instead of after paying.
How much does an online GP consultation cost in Ireland?
A consultation is €35 Monday to Friday between 8am and 5pm, and €50 in the evenings, at weekends and on bank holidays — the second price reflects out-of-hours cover, not a longer or better appointment. The price of the slot you pick is shown before you pay. There is no separate charge for a certificate, referral letter or consultation summary where the GP issues one, and no subscription or membership fee. A prescription-only request, where you need a medicine you are already established on renewed and no consultation, is a different service from €25.
What can an online GP treat, and what needs an in-person visit?
An online GP can assess and treat a great deal of everyday general practice: respiratory and throat infections, skin complaints and rashes, urinary infections, eye and ear problems, digestive symptoms, hay fever and allergies, sexual health and contraception, and the paperwork that goes with being unwell. What cannot be done remotely is anything turning on physical examination — listening to a chest, feeling an abdomen, taking blood pressure, swabs or bloods. If the GP concludes you need to be examined, they will say so and tell you where to go. The consultation fee still applies, because you paid for the doctor’s assessment and that is what you received.
Can an online GP give me a prescription?
Where it is clinically appropriate, yes. The GP signs an Irish prescription and it is transmitted to the pharmacy you nominate over Healthmail, the HSE-approved secure clinical email service. Two honest limits: Healthmail is the only route we use, so if your pharmacy has no @healthmail.ie address we cannot send to it; and some medicines cannot be prescribed remotely at all. Controlled drugs — sedatives, sleeping tablets and opioid painkillers — are outside this service entirely, regardless of what the consultation concludes.
Can I get a sick note from an online doctor appointment?
Yes, where the GP judges one is clinically justified after assessing you. It is a private medical certificate for an employer, school, college or exam board, covering a stated period and, if relevant, a return to work on light duties with the restrictions written out. It is not the Department of Social Protection’s Certificate of Incapacity for Work, which is what you need for an Illness Benefit claim — that comes from your own GP on the Department’s own certificate. A certificate is the outcome of a clinical judgement, not a product you are buying, so the fee is payable whether or not the GP concludes one is appropriate.
Do you do repeat prescriptions in a consultation?
No — and you are asked to acknowledge that before a consultation booking completes. Renewing a medicine you are already established on runs through a separate service where a GP reviews your written request without a video call, which is both cheaper and faster than booking an appointment for it. A consultation is the right choice when something is new, has changed, or has got worse.
Do I need to be registered with a GP to use this?
No, and you do not need to be registered with a GP practice in Ireland either. You do need to create an account with us so that the doctor has somewhere to put your record and your documents, and so that you can get back to them later. What we cannot do is replace a GP practice: we hold a record of your consultations with us and nothing before them, which is precisely why long-term conditions, insurance reports and social-welfare certificates have to go to a practice that holds your full history.
Talk to an Irish GP
A 12-minute video or phone consultation with an Irish Medical Council registered doctor, from €35. The next available time and its price are shown before you pay.
