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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (26 Feb 2014)

Alex White: Regulation (EC) 883/04 and Implementing Regulation 987/09 provide for the coordination of social security systems, including health care, within the EU/EEA and Switzerland, with the aim of ensuring the free movement of persons. This objective of the Regulation is to ensure that persons exercising their right to move and to stay freely within the EU/EEA and Switzerland do not suffer...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (26 Feb 2014)

Alex White: The figure of 77,709 in my response to question No. 223 of 19th February referred to the number of persons holding eligibility for both medical cards and GP visit cards on the basis of the exercise of discretion. The medical card related figure is 50,505 and the respective GP visit card 27,204. The Deputy will note there is very little change between the 1st January and 1st February medical...

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2014)

Alex White: I thank Deputies for their contributions to the debate on the Health Identifiers Bill and welcome their support for what is proposed. This Government is committed to a very ambitious programme of reform, at the heart of which is the care and safety of the patient. The focus of this debate is the Health Identifiers Bill which, as the Minister set out in his statement, is an initiative that...

Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee (27 Feb 2014)

Alex White: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Sub-Committee on Health pursuant to Standing Orders 82(A)(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (27 Feb 2014)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 250 and 264 together. 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: Medical Card Applications (27 Feb 2014)

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 (27 Feb 2014)

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: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (27 Feb 2014)

Alex White: The methadone protocol scheme, which is an agreement between Community Pharmacists, Primary Care GPs and the HSE to provide services to drug misusers in community based settings, was introduced in Ireland in 1998. As of 31 December 2013, there were 628 Community Pharmacists involved in the Methadone Protocol Scheme nationally.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Feb 2014)

Alex White: I am advised that the Health Service Executive has not outsourced the processing of medical card applications. All medical card applications are processed in the HSE’s central office, located at the Primary Care Reimbursement Services (PCRS), Finglas, Dublin 11. For more than thirty years the business model operated by the central office has included the use of managed services...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 Feb 2014)

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 (27 Feb 2014)

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 (27 Feb 2014)

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 (27 Feb 2014)

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: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (4 Mar 2014)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 391 and 468 together. The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicinal products under the community drug schemes in accordance with the provisions of the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. The HSE received an application for the inclusion of Fampridine (Fampyra®) in the GMS and community...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (4 Mar 2014)

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 Eligibility (4 Mar 2014)

Alex White: Under the Health Act 1970, as amended, eligibility for a medical card or a GP visit card is determined primarily on the basis of an assessment of financial means rather than on the basis of a person's medical condition. If an applicant’s means are above the financial thresholds, as outlined in the National Assessment Guidelines, the HSE routinely considers whether the refusal of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (4 Mar 2014)

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 (4 Mar 2014)

Alex White: Eligibility for a medical card only exists for so long as a person continues to meet the criteria set out in the Health Act 1970, as amended. The legislation requires a person to notify the HSE of any change in their circumstances, such as income, expenditure, medical or social issues, which disentitles them to a medical card. In practice, very few people do so. As a result, the HSE has an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Mar 2014)

Alex White: As this is a service related matter, the HSE has been asked to investigate this case and respond to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (4 Mar 2014)

Alex White: As this is a service related matter, the HSE has been asked to examine the specific query raised by the Deputy and reply to him as soon as possible.