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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (6 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: A wide range of medical services are provided to members of the Permanent Defence Force. These include an annual medical examination, sick parades, attendance at GP surgery outside of sick parade and out-of-hours GP services, prescription services, laboratory services, physiotherapy, chiropody, radiology, ophthalmic examinations, in-patient and outpatient public hospital charges, routine...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (6 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: .... This project was devolved to the school authorities for delivery and it is currently at stage 2A. The school in question also requested funding for a new sports hall. However, provision for GP/PE halls does not fall within the remit of the ASA scheme. The purpose of my Department's Additional School Accommodation (ASA) scheme is to ensure that essential mainstream and special...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Island Communities (6 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...tested scheme where there are particularly high costs, e.g., medication, nursing home fees. Furthermore, the Deputy may be aware that, since 2015, every individual aged 70 and over has automatic eligibility for a GP visit card. I can assure the Deputy that, in order to ensure the medical card system is responsive and sensitive to people's needs, my Department keeps medical card issues...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...first appointment with the adult mental health services, but they are not in a position to prescribe her the drugs she had been receiving under CAMHS. Now, those drugs are being prescribed by her GP who is not a specialist in the area but is trying to help. It seems as if the mental health supports that are there are almost not acknowledging the complications caused by the ADHD....

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...So here I go again. Our abortion services are still not up to standard. Women waited generations for abortion services in Ireland but people are still forced to go abroad, and they are intimidated outside GP clinics. Marie O'Shea finalised the review of the abortion legislation in April of last year. Her recommendations could not have been clearer. She said the mandatory three-day...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ..., community intervention teams and community support teams are now in place and are providing care closer to home. We are also making healthcare more affordable, at a time when the cost-of-living crisis is affecting everyone, through the removal of hospital inpatient charges, widened eligibility for the GP card and a reduced drug payment scheme threshold, among other things. Tá...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

John McGuinness: ...increasing. They simply cannot access those services. I asked this question previously. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, answered on the day, but nothing has changed. In 2023, one family's GP referred them to CAMHS. They were seeking access to a child psychiatrist. The child was at home and unmanageable. Since then, nothing has happened. Now, the GP is again writing to CAMHS...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...the hospital did not happen by accident. It is a direct result of decisions taken by successive governments. The closure of emergency departments at Nenagh and Ennis, the refusal to properly fund GP and community health services and the failure to develop the required capacity at the hospital have all heaped unsustainable pressure on heroic front-line staff who do incredible work in dire...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. The General Practitioner (GP) Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Programme commenced in 2020 and has been rolled out on a phased basis to adult GMS (Medical Card and GP Visit Card) patients over a 4-year period. The specified chronic conditions included in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. The General Practitioner (GP) Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Programme commenced in 2020 and has been rolled out on a phased basis to adult GMS (Medical Card and GP Visit Card) patients over a 4-year period. The specified chronic conditions included in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

James Lawless: 636. To ask the Minister for Health what measures his Department is undertaking to assist members of the public (details supplied) in accessing GP care in Kildare, where there is a difficulty for patients in securing a place on a GP client list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10018/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Department of Health maintains regular contact with the HPRA regarding medicines shortages. 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: Medical Cards (5 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 673. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the cohorts of asylum seekers that are entitled to a medical card; if an entitlement to a medical card guarantees a person a place on a GP list; and if he is concerned that given that many citizens cannot get on to a GP list, this policy could be damaging to social cohesion. [10160/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Violet-Anne Wynne: 725. To ask the Minister for Health the hours of service for each GP practice in County Clare, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10445/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: 777. To ask the Minister for Health to outline in tabular form the number of GMS panels that are currently vacant without a GP; the location of each panel; the length of time it is vacant; the number of patients on each panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10769/24]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (29 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...Carthy - To discuss the need for a special needs school in County Monaghan. Deputy Michael Moynihan - To discuss the use of existing CCTV in towns in County Cork. Deputy Dessie Ellis - To discuss GP and other medical services in Finglas. Deputy Michael McNamara - To discuss the impact on primary schools' special education teacher allocation of Circular 0002/2024. Deputy David Stanton - To...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: ...psychiatrist can formally assess a child with ADHD. Only a child psychiatrist can prescribe a child with medication. The only way to access a child psychiatrist is through CAMHS. This lady's GP, in County Kilkenny, has referred them to CAMHS and received a letter back advising that CAMHS is not accepting referrals at present. I do not know how that is the situation. This person is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

John Brady: ...he did not address the serious issues facing communities across the State. For example, more than 100 Ukrainians have been placed in Carnew in my constituency of Wicklow, but there is only a part-time GP service with waiting times of two to three weeks. That waiting list has grown even longer. There is a crisis in school places and a shortage of teachers and classrooms. This situation...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I welcome the news in relation to the training of GPs but we need to accept that the GP system has changed somewhat. GP practices were generally private. When we were children growing up, GPs were probably available to people 24-7. They ran their own business, did their own administration and knew everything that was wrong with people and all their family members and everyone else. We are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: .... I know it is complicated and in a sense, if someone falls and breaks a leg or a hip then it is even more complicated. However, in a lot of cases, it is just a condition of healthcare that the GP or the nursing home cannot deal with and that is the one we need to work on, that is, how we can fast track them from the accident and emergency department into the appropriate setting in the...