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Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (8 Oct 2013)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 527 and 555 together. There are no plans to extend the list of conditions covered by the Long Term Illness scheme. Under the Drug Payment Scheme, no individual or family pays more than €144 per calendar month towards the cost of approved prescribed medicines. The scheme significantly reduces the cost burden for families and individuals incurring...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (8 Oct 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (8 Oct 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Appeals (8 Oct 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (8 Oct 2013)

Alex White: The classification of ADHD as a mental illness or not has led to issues of inconsistency in the application of eligibility in the Long Term Illness scheme. The HSE has undertaken a review of the matter and is implementing new guidelines which address the issues for ADHD patients fairly and consistently for new and recent applicants.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (8 Oct 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (8 Oct 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (8 Oct 2013)

Alex White: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (8 Oct 2013)

Alex White: Under the General Medical Services (GMS) contract, a general practitioner (GP) is expected to provide his/her patients who hold medical cards or GP visit cards with all proper and necessary treatment of a kind generally undertaken by a GP. The contract between the HSE and GPs under the GMS Scheme stipulates that fees are not paid to GPs by the HSE in respect of certain medical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Oct 2013)

Alex White: 90% of the population have access to GP out-of-hours services in 14 centres nationally, in all HSE regions, in at least part of every county. Over 2,000 GPs provide services in the co-ops. As the Deputy's question relates to a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the issue.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Oct 2013)

Alex White: I think she said the motion was a puff of smoke.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Oct 2013)

Alex White: For the sake of accuracy.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Oct 2013)

Alex White: No, appeal to the Minister.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Oct 2013)

Alex White: That is for emergency medical cards. The Deputy is mixing up two things.

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Oct 2013)

Alex White: The Deputy is talking about the emergency situation.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (9 Oct 2013)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 183 to 186, inclusive, together. Water fluoridation and the use of appropriate fluorides is a major plank of public health policy in Ireland in the prevention and management of tooth decay. In 2002 the Forum on Fluoridation, which was established to review this policy, concluded that the fluoridation of public piped water supplies should continue as a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (9 Oct 2013)

Alex White: The HSE collates data on a national level in relation to waiting times, and not at a lower level. The Primary Care Reimbursement Service aims to process all complete medical card applications within 15 days and is currently processing 94.5% of applications within that time frame. The length of time that it takes for a client to receive a decision on their medical card application depends...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (9 Oct 2013)

Alex White: My Department and the HSE have implemented a medicines pricing policy which aims to reduce the prices for medicines/improve value for money whilst also maintaining continuity of supply and availability of essential medicines. These aims are balanced in an attempt to maximise public health gain from available resources. As part of the pricing policies there has been a price freeze (i.e. no...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Regional Service Plans (9 Oct 2013)

Alex White: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Professional Fees (10 Oct 2013)

Alex White: A review was carried out earlier this year under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (FEMPI) Act 2009 in relation to the operation, effectiveness and impact of the amounts and rates payable to certain health professionals under the relevant Regulations. The professionals concerned were General Practitioners, Pharmacists, Dentists, Ophthalmologists, Optometrists and...