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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (1 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the General Medical Services (GMS) scheme, GPs are reimbursed for the range of services they provide to medical card and GP visit card holders on behalf of the HSE. GMS GPs are remunerated for these services primarily on an annual capitation basis, with a range of additional support payments and fees for specific items of service and some consultation types.  Outside of those...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: It is my pleasure to introduce Second Stage of the Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2015 to the Seanad. The Bill will provide for a universal GP service to be made available to all persons aged 70 years and older. This is the second phase of introducing a universal GP service in Ireland which builds on the under-sixes first phase. Together with the under-sixes phase, the second...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Patient choice of doctor is a bedrock principle of the GMS Scheme for medical card and GP visit card holders. For the vast majority of individuals concerned their choice of doctor is accommodated and they are registered with their GMS GP of choice. In 2022 (last full year data available) out of a total of about 348,000 individuals who were approved for either a GP Visit Card or Medical Card,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Dec 2022)

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. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders....

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (7 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: Universal GP care without fees for all children under the age of 6 years was successfully introduced in 2015. Shortly afterwards, the second phase implemented universal GP care without fees for all people aged 70 years and over. This has resulted in approximately 800,000 people now being eligible for GP care without fees, without having to undergo a means test and represents a major step...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Jun 2021)

Norma Foley: I wish to advise the Deputy that the actual cost of constructing a General Purpose (GP) Room for a Primary School and a PE Hall for a Post Primary School can vary depending on a number of factors which can include, but not limited to the size and scope of the construction contract the GP/PE Halls are being constructed under, market conditions, site constraints, planning conditions,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (12 Oct 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract for the provision of GP services without charge on behalf of the HSE for patients who hold a medical card or GP visit card. People who do not have a medical card or GP visit card attend their GP on a private basis, as such the HSE does not hold information on the number of private patients listed with individual GPs. Furthermore,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (31 Jan 2023)

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. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders....

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

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. Most GPs hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Currently, there are 2,524 GPs contracted to provide services under the GMS Scheme and only 23 GMS vacancies as of the start of the year. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GP services are provided without charge to people who hold a medical card or GP visit card under the GMS scheme. Under the terms of the 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...

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

Alex White: Under the General Medical Services (GMS) General Practitioner (GP) Capitation Contract, when a patient transfers from one GP's list to another, Clause 22 states that "the former medical practitioner shall, subject to the written consent of the person (or in the case of a child, his parent) give to the second medical practitioner a summary of the medical history and condition of the patient."...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal General Practitioner Services Provision (6 May 2014)

Alex White: The Government is committed to introducing, on a phased basis, a universal GP service without fees within its term of office, as set out in the Programme for Government and the Future Health strategy framework. As announced in the Budget, it has been decided to commence the roll-out of a universal GP service by providing all children aged 5 and under with access to a GP service without fees....

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Jun 2014)

Alex White: The Government is committed to introducing, on a phased basis, a universal GP service by 2016, as set out in the Programme for Government and the Future Health strategy framework. As announced in the Budget, it has been decided to commence the roll-out of a universal GP service by providing all children under 6 years with access to a GP service without fees. This will mean that almost half...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GP services are provided without charge to people who hold a medical card or GP visit card under the GMS scheme. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (20 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GP services are provided without charge to people who hold a medical card or GP visit card under the GMS scheme. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: GP services are provided without charge to people who hold a medical card or GP visit card under the GMS scheme. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (7 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: GP services are provided without charge to people who hold a medical card or GP visit card under the GMS scheme. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Dec 2022)

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. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: ...practitioners, most of whom have contracts with the HSE to provide services under various public health schemes. There are no plans at present to directly employ general practitioners. The 2019 GP Agreement includes a commitment to undertake a strategic review of GP services within the lifetime of the Agreement, to examine how best to ensure the provision of GP services in Ireland for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (15 Dec 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs contracted under the General Medical Services Scheme are required by their contract to make suitable arrangements to enable contact to be made with them, or a locum or deputy, for emergencies outside of normal practice hours. While there is no obligation on GPs to participate in GP out of hours co-operatives as a means of meeting the contractual requirement, such services facilitate the...