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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (15 Nov 2023)

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: Medical Cards (15 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ..., i.e. full eligibility (medical card holders) and limited eligibility (all others). People with full eligibility (medical card holders) can currently access a range of services including GP services, prescribed drugs and medicines, public in-patient hospital services, including consultants’ services, out-patient public hospital services including consultants’ services,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (15 Nov 2023) See 2 other results from this answer

Violet-Anne Wynne: 154. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the long-term sustainability of GP services in County Clare in view of an ageing population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50283/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023) See 10 other results from this debate

...Hughes: Unfortunately, there is not enough information out there. We have been in touch with the HSE in respect of the sepsis programme. We were told the new leaflets were distributed to all the GP offices and pharmacies, because the Irish Pharmacy Union of Ireland was involved. This is not the case.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Niall Collins: ...each individual. Services for all international protection applicants, including healthcare, are mainstreamed and are accessed through the same referral pathways as Irish citizens. Residents in accommodation centres access GP services within the local community. Mental health services are accessed through the same referral pathways as Irish citizens, that is through primary care, GP...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Budget 2024 Expenditure Ceiling and Resource Allocation for the Department of Health and HSE: Discussion (14 Nov 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...hard copy and they are shifted around the whole system. We do not have a proper ICT system. During Covid we had a major crisis because people did not have patient numbers and therefore different GP lists and hospital lists were being used. There is a major ICT productivity mess. There is a massive dependency on agency staff, which again is a phenomenal cost to the system. There are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Nov 2023)

Michael McGrath: My Department and Revenue have, for some time, been aware of issues arising from contractual arrangements within the General Practitioner (GP) community whereby some GPs treat income under their General Medical Services (GMS) contract as income of a GP practice in which they are a partner or an employee, rather than income of that individual GP. Revenue issued a guidance note to tax...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...a new 16 classroom primary school and accommodation, including two classrooms, for children with special educational needs.Phase 1 of the construction project, comprising of 8 classrooms and the GP Hall, was handed over on 26th September 2022.Phase 2 was handed over on 24th August 2023 and included the remaining 8 classrooms and accommodation, including 2 classrooms, for children with...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (14 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: .... Services for all International Protection applicants, including healthcare, are mainstreamed, and accessed through the same referral pathways as Irish citizens. Residents in accommodation centres access GP services within the local community, and mental health services are accessed through the same referral pathways as Irish citizens – that is, through primary care, GP referral...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Thomas Gould: 491. To ask the Minister for Health whether he is aware that the HSE has no remit to assist in sourcing GP care for children under 18 years who have no medical or GP-visit card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49349/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (14 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. As the Deputy is aware, the Health Information and Quality Authority are currently carrying out a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) on the herpes zoster vaccine which protects...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this answer

Martin Browne: 525. To ask the Minister for Health what plans his Department has to increase GP capacity in Tipperary, as many people are unable to get a GP to take them on in Tipperary due to a lack of capacity. [49659/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Nov 2023)

Thomas Pringle: 561. To ask the Minister for Health what is causing the shortage of the diabetes medication ozempic (semaglutide); the reason the HSE is overruling GP recommendations that it be prescribed to their patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49795/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 591. To ask the Minister for Health the correct procedure to be followed to renew a discretionary GP card in the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49880/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Peadar Tóibín: 594. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will assign a GP to a person (details supplied) where all local GPs are fully subscribed. [49907/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (14 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this answer

Stephen Donnelly: The collection of taxes and issues relating to the interpretation of tax law are a matter for the Revenue Commissioners. New guidance regarding the tax treatment of GP's GMS income has now been issued by the Revenue Commissions. Officials from my Department and the HSE engaged with the Office of the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Finance prior to publication to understand...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (9 Nov 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Seán Fleming: As I outlined, the Minister for Finance intends to bring forward an amendment on Report Stage of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023 to provide that where an individual GP enters into a contract with the HSE to provide certain medical professional services and provide those services in the conduct of a partnership profession with other individual GPs, the income from those professional services can...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Violet-Anne Wynne: I will try my best. I raise the issue of the imminent closure of a GP surgery in Kilrush in west Clare. For the past number of years, the HSE has provided temporary locums but that solution has been completely inconsistent and not ideal, as the Minister can imagine. I am looking for the Government, but, in particular, the Minister for Health, to give this GP practice their attention. As I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (9 Nov 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...substitution protocol would allow pharmacists to supply a specified medical product without the need to seek authorisation from the prescriber, in other words, going back to ring the original GP and asking can one medicine be changed for another. Substitution will be under the strict direction of the protocol drafted by clinical experts and approved by the Minister. It would only be used...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Erin McGreehan: I welcome this morning's news that more than 1,300 medical professionals and graduates have applied for 350 GP places. There are now more than 1,000 trainee GPs in the training programme. We absolutely recognise that there are not enough at the moment but this compares with 700 in 2019. It is positive news for a lot of people. Locally, in County Louth, there are not enough GPs. People...