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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: .... Further information is available here: www2.hse.ie/conditions/shingles/ It is open to any individual who is aged 50 years and older and who wishes to receive the vaccine to consult with their GP or pharmacist. It may be of interest to note that the Health Information and Quality Authority are currently carrying out a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) on the herpes zoster...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (6 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and two further initiatives related to gestational diabetes. The inclusion of diabetes as one of four chronic diseases in respect of which GMS patients receive ongoing, planned care from their GP through the Chronic Disease Management Programme also represents a major step forward in assisting those living with diabetes to manage their condition. As part of the recently published GP...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Care. The HSE will consult with a wide range of stakeholders in the development of the new model of care, including those who use the services and advocacy groups. Please be advised that GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold contract(s) with the HSE for the provision of health services, such as under the GMS scheme for the provision of health services without charge to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (6 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...may benefit them in assessment, including medical evidence of costs and certain expenses. In circumstances where an applicant is still over the income limit for a medical card, they are then assessed for a GP visit card, which entitles the applicant to GP visits without charge. The Drug Payment Scheme (DPS) ensures that no individual or family pays more than €80 a month towards the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023) See 6 other results from this debate

..., to commence the creation of IHIs for 4.5 million people, using the PPS number data set provided by the Department of Social Protection. The system went live in September 2015, initially providing IHIs for all electronic referrals from GPs, and then extended to all electronic messages from GPs using Healthlink. In 2018 and 2019, significant work was undertaken with various national...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (5 Dec 2023)

Martin Conway: ...into the notion that vaping is used as a step-down from smoking cigarettes. Vaping is illegal in Australia. Someone who wants to vape to give up smoking in Australia needs a prescription from a GP. That is where we need to get to with vaping. We need to close down the horrible vaping shops that are proliferating in every town and village. They are disgusting.I remember we had a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

...about a change of drug. It seems that despite all the modern communication systems, it is all written on paper but nobody is passing it. For example, it goes in the post but does not get to the GP or the patient may have it and forget to give it to the nurse and so forth. Regarding hospital care, things should be better but still they are very short of good palliative care consultants...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Dec 2023)

John McGuinness: ...for Employment Affairs and Social Protection If a disability allowance will be approved as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied) considering the medical report provided by her GP. [53445/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: .... Further information is available here: www2.hse.ie/conditions/shingles/ It is open to any individual who is aged 50 years and older and who wishes to receive the vaccine to consult with their GP or pharmacist. It may be of interest to note that the Health Information and Quality Authority are currently carrying out a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) on the herpes zoster vaccine which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a contract with the HSE for the provision of health services such as the GMS contract for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card patients. As GPs are self-employed, they may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. At the start December, 2,539 GPs hold a GMS contract and a further 587 GPs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17-25. In 2023, a further range of measures facilitated better access to affordable, high-quality healthcare. These include an expansion of GP care without charges to children aged 6 and 7, and to people earning no more than the median household income, the abolition of all public in-patient hospital charges for adults, and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...conditions. COPD is a specified chronic disease which falls to be managed under that particular programme. Through the chronic diseases management contract, as Deputy Naughten has said, GPs are funded to provide structured reviews and interventions in time with the model of care. Each patient receives two scheduled reviews with a GP in a 12-month period, each preceded by a practice...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...part of a campus project and has been devolved for delivery under the patronage of CEIST. The brief for the project includes the delivery of a 16 classroom Primary School with 2 classroom SEN base, GP room, library and other ancillary accommodation. The project is currently at Stage 2a of the architectural planning design process. At a recent meeting with the Department, a Stage 2a...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...growing beyond its capabilities to grow. That is creating huge pressures on people already in Dublin or coming to Dublin. Finding a job here is the easy part. Finding a place to live, a school, a GP and so on is much more difficult. There are other areas in Ireland where there is still much scope for development and where development could be carried out more easily but, partly, or...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Admissions (29 Nov 2023)

Aisling Dolan: ...Ballinasloe. Those families will have a lot of demands. By the nature of this, they will have more demands in probably having younger families. They will also have more demands when it comes to GP visit cards because, as regards the median income now, people are being allocated these GP cards. When we look at Ballinasloe and the Pobal deprivation index and the level of deprivation, we...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: ...there has been a radical reduction in patient costs. We had a really important moment just a few weeks ago whereby now, for the first time ever, over half the population have access to free GP care. The latest half a million GP cards were targeted at the squeezed middle, those people who needed to see a doctor, needed to see their GP or needed to bring their child to a GP but could not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: .... Further information is available here: www2.hse.ie/conditions/shingles/ It is open to any individual who is aged 50 years and older and who wishes to receive the vaccine to consult with their GP or pharmacist. It may be of interest to note that the Health Information and Quality Authority are currently carrying out a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) on the herpes zoster vaccine which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (29 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...from specific interventions. Testing for COVID-19 is now operated on a sustainable model similar to the model that exists for other respiratory diseases. Testing is no longer needed unless a GP or healthcare worker advises you to have one or under the direction of Public Health in the HSE. Anybody who has concerns about an underlying condition or their level of risk in relation to COVID-19...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Holly Cairns: 153. To ask the Minister for Health whether his attention has been drawn to instances where parents who contact out-of-hours GP helplines have been advised to directly visit an emergency department and, consequently, must pay a fee due to a lack of GP referral; whether he will make steps to ensure parents seeking emergency medical care for their children will not be charged an emergency...