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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (16 Sep 2016)

Simon Harris: The Government is committed to ensuring that patients throughout the country continue to have access to GP services, especially in remote rural areas and also in certain disadvantaged urban areas, and that general practice is sustainable in such areas into the future. It is imperative that existing GP services in these areas are retained and that general practice remains an attractive career...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...last year and is currently underway. My Department are leading the review with HSE support and input from key stakeholders. As per the terms of reference, the key areas that will be examined are GP training, GP capacity, the eHealth agenda, Out of Hours reform, and the support model for General Practice. Key stakeholders include GP representative and training organisations, representatives...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Dec 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The 2019 GP Agreement on contractual reform and service development is the largest development in general practice in recent times. The Agreement which is being rolled out from 2019 to 2023, provides for significant increases in capitation fees for participating GPs, the introduction of new fees and subsidies for additional services, and increased practice supports and allowances. Over...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Persons who are eligible for GP care without charge under the Health Act 1970 are not subject to any co-payments or other charges in respect of such services. There is no provision under the GMS GP contract for persons who hold a medical card or GP visit card to be charged for routine phlebotomy services provided by their GP which are required to either assist in the diagnosis of illness or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (28 Apr 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Persons who are eligible for GP care without charge under the Health Act 1970 are not subject to any co-payments or other charges in respect of such services. There is no provision under the GMS GP contract for persons who hold a medical card or GP visit card to be charged for routine phlebotomy services provided by their GP which are required to either assist in the diagnosis of illness or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Oct 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government is committed to the continued development of GP capacity to ensure that patients across the country continue to have access to GP services, especially in remote rural areas and also in disadvantaged urban areas, and that general practice is sustainable in all areas into the future. The aim is to ensure that existing GP services are retained and that general practice remains an...

Written Answers — General Practitioner Services: General Practitioner Services (29 Nov 2011)

Róisín Shortall: Under the General Medical Services (GMS) contract between the HSE and a GP, the GP agrees to be routinely available for consultation by eligible persons at his / her surgery or surgeries and for domiciliary visiting for a total of 40 hours each week on five days or more in the week. Also under the contract, the GP must make suitable arrangements to enable contact to be made with him / her or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS (General Medical Services) contract with the HSE to provide services without charge to patients who hold a medical card or a GP visit card. GPs are reimbursed by the HSE for the provision of those services. Medical and GP visit card holders are not subject to a charge for GP face to face or phone consultations. People who do not hold...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (31 May 2017)

Simon Harris: There is no provision under the GP GMS contract for persons who hold a medical card or GP visit card to be charged for routine phlebotomy services provided by their GP, or the Practice Nurse on behalf of the GP, which are required to either assist in the diagnosis of illness or the treatment of a condition. The HSE has advised GPs that where a blood test forms part of the investigation or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Mar 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 to medical card and GP visit card holders. Where a patient who holds a medical card or GP visit card experiences difficulty in finding a GP to accept them as a patient, the person concerned having unsuccessfully applied to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Where a GMS patient experiences difficulty in finding a GP to accept him/her as a patient, the person concerned having unsuccessfully applied to at least three GPs in the area can apply to the HSE National Medical Card Unit which has the power to assign that person to a GP's GMS patient list. People who do not hold a medical card or GP visit card access GP services on a private basis and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 778, 780 and 781 together. As at 1 April 2017, 2,482 GPs were contracted by the HSE to provide services under the General Medical Services (GMS) Scheme to over 2.125 million people who hold either a medical card or GP visit card. 2,350 GPs were registered to provide services to children under 6 years of age. Persons who do not hold a medical card or GP visit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (6 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: The introduction of GP care without fees at the point of access to all persons aged 70 years and over commenced on 5 August 2015. This service is being provided under the existing 2005 GP visit card contract and, therefore, patients who qualify for a GP visit card on or after 5 August 2015 are entitled to the same GP service as those who held a GP visit card prior to that date. A...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Apr 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: The Government is committed to introducing a universal GP service without fees on a phased basis. The first phase will be for all children aged under 6 years. This service will commence during the summer. In parallel with this, the second phase will extend universal GP care without fees to all persons aged 70 years and over, subject to the passing of the necessary legislation. These measures...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 314 and 316 together. GP services are provided without charge to people who hold a medical card or GP visit card under the GMS scheme. Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (15 Jan 2019)

Simon Harris: Under the General Medical Services (GMS) contract, GPs must be available to provide services in their practice premises or by way of domiciliary visits, as appropriate, for their medical card and GP visit card patients for 40 hours each week. They must also make arrangements to enable contact to be made with them, or a locum/deputy, for urgent cases outside of these hours. It is a matter for...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Relationship between Primary Care and Secondary Care (21 Sep 2016)

...about funding. Ours is the 11th busiest hospital in the State and we have the 18th largest funding. Therefore, we are relatively underfunded. As a result of that, we work differently. If a GP in north Dublin sends a patient to the emergency department, ED, the his or her letter is ignored. Why would a patient in north Dublin go to see a GP? It does not do them any good. If a GP in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Currently,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Currently,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (21 Jun 2017)

Simon Harris: The introduction of GP care without fees to all people over 70 and all children under 6 years of age in 2015 represents a major step forward in improving access, quality and affordability of health care in Ireland. The Programme for Government commits to extending in phases, and subject to negotiation with GPs, free GP care to all children under 18 years of age. Legislative changes will be...