Results 1-20 of 1,935 for gp speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (29 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...month, and the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17-25. In 2023, further measures have facilitated better access to affordable, high-quality healthcare, including an expansion of GP care without charges to children aged 6 and 7, and to people earning no more than the median household income, the abolition of all public in-patient hospital charges for adults, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (28 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in priority order for medical card eligibility. In following the Expert Group’s advice, a person’s means remains the main qualifier for a medical card. Applications for a medical card and GP visit card can be made online at mymedicalcard.ie. This is the quickest method of getting the card. All of the required documentation that will assist in your application can also be...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...nationwide. The third part, which is the electronic health record, will take much longer and we are doing it on a regional basis. This is where the record is integrated into the hospital and the GP so when someone comes into an emergency department, they pull up who the patient is and schedule him or her to go and see Dr. Murphy, who then schedules the patient for his or her scans, all...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...key. We need to get the 70 beds opened. We have got access to them and they are going to make an immediate difference. We need the 16 beds on-site and the 96-bed block open. We need the GP on the door and the MAUs moving to 24-7. We need a strong patient flow team and we need to continue with the progress that has been made in terms of senior decision-makers being on-site. We need to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Advertising (23 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...three themes – healthy eating, physical activity and mental wellbeing. Further campaigns were also delivered to raise awareness of the expansion of the Free Contraception Scheme, the expansion of the GP Visit Card scheme, as well as raising awareness of various public consultations and public notices. The Department's response to the COVID-19 pandemic includes a comprehensive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (22 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to possess". Persons who hold a medical card or a GP visit card are not subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a contract(s) with the HSE for the provision of health services such as the GMS contract for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card patients. Services provided by GPs outside of relevant contractual terms are a matter of private contract between the GP and their patients. The National Screening Service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (21 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...them in assessment, including medical evidence of costs and certain expenses. In circumstances where an applicant is still over the income limit for a medical card, they are then assessed for a GP visit card, which entitles the applicant to GP visits without charge. An online application for a medical card can be made at the following link: ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...above, are detailed. The webpage is updated daily as the HPRA receives new information. Patients who have any concerns about availability of their medication are encouraged to speak to their GP or pharmacist, as in many cases, alternative medications may be available.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Diabetes cycle of care programme was introduced in October 2015. Under the programme, adult GMS patients, those who hold a medical card or GP visit card, with a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes are eligible to be managed as part of the programme by their GP. This programme has largely been replaced by the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Programme which commenced in 2020 and has now been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (16 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...services, prescribed drugs and medicines, public in-patient hospital services, public out-patient hospital services, dental, ophthalmic and aural services. The issue of granting medical or GP visit cards based on having a particular disease or illness was previously examined in 2014 by the HSE Expert Panel on Medical Need and Medical Card Eligibility. The Group concluded that it was...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and south Dublin, people were waiting about six years to have cataracts removed. They are now waiting less than 12 months and that time is falling. In Galway, Mayo and Roscommon, people sent by their GP to see a urologist were waiting two years for their first appointment. They are now not waiting two years; they are waiting five weeks. In Sligo, women sent by their GP to see a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Cards (15 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the Health Act 1970 (as amended), eligibility for a medical card is determined by the HSE, which assesses each application on a qualifying financial threshold. The issue of granting medical or GP visit cards based on having a particular disease or illness was previously examined in 2014 by the HSE Expert Panel on Medical Need and Medical Card Eligibility. The Group concluded that it was...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Healthcare Policy (15 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...€80 per month, and the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17-25. In 2023, further measures have facilitated better access to affordable, high-quality healthcare, including an expansion of GP care without charges to children aged 6 and 7, and to people earning no more than the median household income, the abolition of all public in-patient hospital charges for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Where a person who holds a medical card or GP visit card, experiences difficulty in finding a GP to accept them as a patient, that person having unsuccessfully applied to at least three GPs in the area (or fewer if there...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (14 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...;7.3m to fund the HSE National Stroke Strategy over the last two Budgets which comprises of: 2024 Existing Levels of Service (ELS) recurring funding of €3.7m which was allocated for the extension of the GP contract to include primary care-delivered case finding and treatment strategy for Hypertension in over 45-year-olds. This was in addition to the €3.6m recurring funding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. The Government is working to increase the number of GPs practicing in the State and thereby improve access to GP services across the country. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. The State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Where a vacancy arises in a practice with a GMS contract, the HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to possess". Persons who hold a medical card or a GP visit card are not subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...;enhanced medical card’ who may already be in possession of a medical card is not available at this time. As of 1 April 2024, 1,598,479 hold eligibility for a medical card and 660,487 hold eligibility for a GP visit card.