Results 21-40 of 42 for gp speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: Nursing homes probably have an arrangement whereby a GP visits once a week or similar.

Public Accounts Committee: Engagement with Nursing Homes Ireland (14 Jun 2018)

Seán Fleming: If there are 100 people in a nursing home and 20 different GPs dealt with those residents before their admission, those GPs will not regularly attend the nursing home. Do nursing homes have an arrangement with a GP to provide a GP service?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Those are the screenings for the public. One goes to one's GP for cervical screening, one has to go somewhere to get breast screening done-----

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Seán Fleming: Bowel screening is done at home. That means the GP is not involved so in that situation if there was to be an issue BowelScreen has a direct line of communication with the individual who does the test at home. Is the GP involved?

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Seán Fleming: -----approximately how many are presenting with GP referrals and how many are not? The witnesses might not know. We all talk about the local health centre and primary care units. There was a time when one went to the local GP, who would apply stitches if required. People are now sent on to the accident and emergency department. Of all the people who attend the accident and emergency...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: General Scheme of Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Pre-legislative Scrutiny (8 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...on behalf of the State every day of the week and earning all his money from State fees is a sole trader but he is very much in the public eye and part of the State mechanism. It is the same with a GP. Most of the income of GP practices comes from the State, particularly with the roll-out of the extra medical cards. They are not included and I presume this means that the staff they...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...the loss of income, not the beneficiary of the care. Over the past year I have witnessed the system becoming stricter. Doctors' letters and reports can be submitted. Is the deciding officer a medical officer? That is a simple matter of fact that can be established. I understand the GP marks the form in respect of the needs of the person and acknowledges whether the condition is mild,...

Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (26 Feb 2015)

Seán Fleming: I wish to raise the issue of the need for the HSE to appoint a new GP to fill the vacant position in Borris-in-Ossory in County Laois. I appreciate that the Minister is here in person. The background to this situation is very straightforward. It is happening in many areas in rural Ireland, in particular. The doctor who has been there for many years, Dr. Fitzgerald, is retiring. I thank...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Where else is the Government getting the extra €330 million in income generation? I know where some of it comes from. The Government promised free-GP care for the under-sixes last year.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...still the Government had to get a Supplementary Estimate to balance the books. We saw the hint of it the other day. The new Minister for Health has said there might be a nominal fee for the free-GP card. How much will this nominal fee be? Those are the Minister’s words, not mine.

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...responding to freedom of information requests, but perhaps other cases will ultimately be covered by codes of practice. I have encountered cases where a person may not have the form signed by their GP returned. It may stipulate whether requirements were mild, moderate, profound or severe. The reason for the form not being returned could be that the form was signed by a doctor, which is a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 16 - Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 17 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 18 - Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 19 - Domiciliary Care Allowance
Chapter 20 - Invalidity Pension
Social Insurance Fund Annual Accounts 2012 (1 May 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...a receipt for the local property tax. In respect of the medical assessors, I know that the original forms, be they for illness benefit or disability or carer's payments, were filled out by the GP because we all get them back under FOI or when we look for the forms and see what was on them. Is Ms O'Donoghue able to tell us how many medical assessors the Department has for illness...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...' money and which is being given by the HSE. In our view they should comply with public sector pay guidelines if they are in receipt of such money. I am surprised that some of those organisations are what we know as out-of-hours and GP services. One such organisation receives €8 million and another receives €7.3 million for the out-of-hours GP service. I know much of the...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister went on to mention another mean cut. We talk about getting people back to work, but the Minister said that when a person returns to work he or she will now only be given a GP card instead of retaining the full medical card. That will save the Department of Health and the HSE €11 million. Cutting medical cards for people who should be incentivised to go back to work is...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...- those over 70 years of age. We know from research carried out by the ESRI that medical cards are a progressive anti-poverty measure. They provide an essential safety net in terms of access to GP care, medicines and hospital treatment for low income families and older people who are more likely to have greater health care needs. Despite being a Government that talks about creating a...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...of people who have medical cards, regardless of their health care needs. Today's budget changes are a further step in this process. There is one positive development with medical cards. The extension of the free GP card to children under five years of age is welcome. Everybody will agree with that. However, that will do nothing for the many families with young children over five years...

Discretionary Medical Cards: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...cut 24,000 discretionary medical cards and that people who qualified before will only get a card if they require urgent and ongoing medical treatment. The first he heard of it was when he got a GP card. He asked the HSE why he was getting a GP card as he had serious conditions. The Minister of State, Deputy White, cannot outsource this problem to the HSE because the Minister, Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (11 Sep 2013)

Seán Fleming: The main issue I want to deal with is homelessness. The representative from the Society of St. Vincent de Paul spoke about beginning the delivery of free access for GP care. Does the society propose to commence the delivery process with children given that they are often the people about whom families are most worried? It is frightening to think people are afraid to visit a GP because of...

Freedom of Information (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: ...s medical conditions in the confidential part of the application form. The form normally asks whether a person's condition is normal, mild, moderate, severe or profound. The general practitioner, GP, had ticked each one, yet the letter on the other side of the page stated that the person should have been supported. The person did not understand the file and brought it to me. I...

Written Answers — General Practitioner Services: General Practitioner Services (12 Jan 2011)

Seán Fleming: ...: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to allow general practitioners who do not have a general medical card list to obtain a list and to participate in the various out of hours GP services scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1082/11]