Results 1-20 of 88 for gp speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (9 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...can be secured for a person (details supplied) who requires same to be completed as soon as possible, whose family are concerned for their well-being, who was in State care aged 5 to 18, and whose GP has now referred them to the appropriate services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14808/24]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (22 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...- To discuss the provision of school transport within Youghal town. Deputy Bernard Durkan - To discuss the protection of Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare. Deputy Dessie Ellis - To discuss GP and other medical services in Finglas. The matters raised by Deputies Martin Browne, Michael McNamara, Jennifer Whitmore and Paul McAuliffe have been selected for discussion.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...medication and the problem becomes more serious. I would like to see some reform there. An issue I raised previously is the question of medical card holders, and in one case the holder of a GP-visit card, who, for one reason or another, do not qualify for an upgrade to a full medical card. In one of the cases I dealt with, it was due to misadventure in one of our hospitals. I would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...It is not there at the moment. What can we do? We will raise it with the Minister and so forth, but is there part of the system that immediately takes over when people are in hospital or with the GP or whatever and through which they are told they are a high-risk factor or are in a high-risk area and this is what they have to do? Do we have that kind of information?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ..., as has the Chair and everybody else on the committee. That would seem to indicate we are being heard but we are not being listened to. Somebody, somewhere says every other patient has a GP visit card, and that is great, but this is a particular category of patients who have a life-changing or life-threatening condition. Small things mean a lot to them, and they are not known to abuse...

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 (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 326. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which plans are in hand to ensure an adequate GP service throughout County Kildare, given the number of GPs retiring and the existing and future demands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49244/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...think it was effective. We are now in a situation where we need to ask the question as to whether women who had a concern – they were either pregnant or thought they were pregnant - would go to their GP to ascertain the extent to which and how they should proceed. It was not a question of whether they should go to another jurisdiction for an abortion; it was the extent to which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 407. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the HSE pandemic bonus payment, who was contracted as a GP in a HSE Covid assessment hub in Tallaght and Kildare treating patients with Covid in PPE and who is having difficulty receiving confirmation as to whether they would be eligible for this payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31705/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (28 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an urgent review of an eligibility for disability allowance can be undertaken in the case of a person (details supplied) whose case is supported by their GP given their ongoing medical challenges, and who is unable to secure employment as a result of their ongoing medical challenges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31529/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which plans are in hand to ensure an adequate GP service throughout County Kildare, given the number of GPs retiring and the existing and future demands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26989/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...waiting rule. Some of the reasons I accept and others I do not, given that I have been involved in this from the outset. I would like some elaboration on the cases of women who present to their GP before their pregnancy has exceeded 12 weeks but timed out as a result of the health system being unable to provide a service in the prescribed time.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (19 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if a GP can be assigned to an infant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18610/23]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...the public health service. It is essential now to emphasise the various ways and means that can be used to move forward the project at all levels, bearing in mind a crisis is looming in respect of GPs throughout the country but especially in areas with a rapidly growing population. It has been brought to our attention that this applies in particular where large numbers of refugees, for...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...the individual patient and say he or she is suffering from a very serious illness or an accident that occurred in hospital. He or she may have complied with all the issues, including providing a GP report, a hospital report and every possible piece of information that could be necessary. What is the answer? He or she to make a new application. Appalling carry-on like that is going on....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...available once upon a time. They are no longer available except when the case has been examined two, three or four times, notwithstanding the availability of the consultant's report and the GP's report, both of which point towards this being a serious situation that needs to be dealt with now. Somebody comes back from the medical card section and says a new application has to be made....

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 1156. To ask the Minister for Health if a new GP can be facilitated in the case of persons (details supplied) who have been unable to source local GP care and require care for repeat prescriptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12356/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: The Role of Pharmacy Care in the Healthcare System: Irish Pharmacy Union (8 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent are pharmacies in ongoing digital contact with hospitals, GP practices etc. with a view to ensuring the comprehensive availability of services and sufficient dialogue between all those providing services?