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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Sep 2013)

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 (18 Sep 2013)

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 (18 Sep 2013)

Alex White: Under the provisions of the Health Act 1970, eligibility for health services in Ireland is based primarily on residency and means including the income and reasonable expenditure, of the applicant and his or her partner and dependants. Therefore, there is no automatic entitlement to medical cards for persons of any age, solely relating to illness. Under the legislation, determination of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Sep 2013)

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: Dental Services Provision (18 Sep 2013)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1419 and 1426 together. The Dental Treatment Service Scheme (DTSS) provides access to dental treatment for adult medical card holders. Services are provided by independent practices. Given the current difficult position of the public finances, it is not possible at present to expand the scheme or to make changes that will impact on the budget of the DTSS. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1420 to 1422, inclusive, and 1425 together. The Government has decided that the numbers employed across the public service must be reduced in order to meet its fiscal and budgetary targets. The health sector must make its contribution to that reduction. However, the HSE can make staff appointments once it remains within its overall employment ceiling and has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (18 Sep 2013)

Alex White: The Irish Dental Association has outlined to me the potential role of dentists in health promotion and chronic disease management. The Department of Health will continue to engage with the Irish Dental Association on this and other relevant issues.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (18 Sep 2013)

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 (18 Sep 2013)

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 (18 Sep 2013)

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 (18 Sep 2013)

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: Orthodontic Services Provision (18 Sep 2013)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1444 to 1446, inclusive, and 1561 together. The HSE provides orthodontic treatment to those who have been assessed and referred for treatment before their 16th birthday. Orthodontic referrals are generally received via the Public Dental Service school screening programme. An individual's access to orthodontic treatment is determined against a set of clinical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (18 Sep 2013)

Alex White: Under the provisions of the Health Act 1970 (as amended), a person has full eligibility for health services, specifically a medical card, where he/she is unable without undue hardship to arrange general practitioner medical and surgical services for him/herself and dependents. The assessment for a medical card is determined primarily by reference to the person's overall financial situation,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (18 Sep 2013)

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 (18 Sep 2013)

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 (18 Sep 2013)

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: General Practitioner Services (18 Sep 2013)

Alex White: 90% of the population have access to GP out-of-hours services in 14 centres nationally, in all HSE regions, in at least part of every county. Over 2,000 GPs provide services in the co-ops. As the Deputy's question relates to a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the issue.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Alex White: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1465 and 1466 together. The Health Professionals (Reduction of Payments to General Practitioners) (National Immunisation Programmes) Regulations 2013 - S.I. No. 278 of 2013 specify that the amount payable to a general practitioner for administering to an individual in an "at-risk" category an influenza vaccine under the General Medical Services Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (18 Sep 2013)

Alex White: All persons with continence problems receive a baseline continence assessment from the HSE. The purpose of this assessment is to develop a continence management plan tailored for each person. The assessment includes an examination of diet and waist and hip measurements to ensure the continence products prescribed are appropriate to the individual needs of the person. Ongoing reassessment is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (18 Sep 2013)

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...