Results 1-20 of 44 for gp speaker:Joan Collins

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Joan Collins: My question relates to new guidance given on the General Medical Services, GMS, scheme regarding the tax treatment of GPs' income. This will have a detrimental effect on GP practices, especially community practices. I put a question to the Minister for Health, who said his Department and the HSE had been in contact with Revenue on the issue but offered little other information. A GP...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: A number of constituents have contacted me about the shingles vaccine following the HSE's advertising campaign telling people over 50 that it is important to get the vaccine. One woman went to her GP, thinking she could get the vaccine there, but was told she needed a prescription to take to a chemist. At two different chemists, she was quoted €460 and €480, respectively, for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (10 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: 497. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2024 to provide an additional 120 GP training places. [43610/23]

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jul 2023)

Joan Collins: ...Will the Minister provide a timeline and confirm that all maternity hospitals will offer the full range of abortion and reproductive health services. I ask the Minister what he will do about the number of GPs offering services. Only one in ten GPs offers full reproductive healthcare. The independent review highlighted the fact that there was a very bad spread in the south east, with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Joan Collins: ...they need to assist their child to have the best life possible with the supports they need. There is then a mental health reaction to that and anxiety could possibly arise. They will go to their GP who will assess them. There could be a two-year waiting list to go through the primary care system. They will then be referred to CAMHS, and CAMHS will say, "No, that child does not have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Joan Collins: ...development check but was told they would not be seen at that time. She asked whether they would be seen at six months but the centre said that was not likely. She was advised to go to their local GP to get the development check. This is not on. The services at Crumlin and Drimnagh, where public health nurses are being moved from one healthcare centre to another on Armagh Road, are...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Joan Collins: ...are over-strained. They do not have enough staff and they do not have enough beds. Accident and emergency departments are at the centre of all the failings in our health service. The number of GPs is declining and people are having difficulty getting GP visits. This is pushing people into accident and emergency departments. Years-long waiting lists for surgery and treatment push...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: ...filling the domiciliary care forms, people come into my office when they get that form when their child is 16 or coming up to 16 and they are anxious about the process. On the form filling and particularly the GP’s part in stating whether the disability is moderate, medium or extensive, they get worried about the possibility that they might not get the allowance. We have to get...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Services (24 Jan 2023)

Joan Collins: ...have moved back into their roles at that stage. The Minister of State pointed to retirement and so on and stated that parents who are concerned about their child's development should contact their GP - GPs are also under severe pressure at the moment - or the local public health nursing service directly. I am not satisfied with the response of the Minister of State. She stated that...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6 – General (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Joan Collins: ...who have done best out of this budget are two working adults with children who will gain more than €2,000 due to income tax changes, one-off energy payments or child benefits, back-to-school reductions in crèche costs, free GP visits for under-18s and cuts to third-level fees, but with inflation, and energy cost increases in particular, even they will be worse off and those on...

Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (16 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: .... The letter stated succinctly that a motion was passed to ask the Minister to provide the booster vaccine in local communities through whatever means possible, such as primary healthcare centres, GP surgeries and community centres, and through organisations such as Safetynet. The task force asked the Minister to do it as a matter of the utmost urgency in the interest of public health....

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: .... The Government has only applied a sticking plaster. There will be no transformational change without a substantial increase in funding. It does not only apply to bed capacity, staff or stand-alone elective hospitals. We need substantial investment in GP facilities to enable a shift to greater care in community, greater investment in women's health, mental health, e-health, IT...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: ...'s plans are based on the minimum - and I stress "minimum" - requirements identified in the health service capacity review of 2018. These requirements were dependant on significant expansion of GP and community-based services, as well as community and long-term services for older people, none of which have been achieved. The Government plans, even if they are achieved, which is very...

Adoption (Information) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Sep 2021)

Joan Collins: ...stated that it would provide information on vaccine trials carried out on people in mother and baby homes and other places where children were very much on their own. People must go through their GPs, who will then decide whether they will get the information. That is outrageous. I have a right to my medical files. Through my GP, I have a right to know everything about what has been...

Impact of Covid-19 on People with Disabilities within the Education and Health Sectors: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: ...James's Hospital with a view to the ward taking over her care, but this has not happened. The ward refuses to engage with the woman's daughter and has left her limbo with regard to her medication, with her GP stating that it was not within their remit to prescribe the medication as they are not a psychiatrist. The woman's middle child is 13 years old and has been diagnosed with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Family Carers Ireland (5 May 2021)

Joan Collins: ...to a man who has a child with severe autism and he made the point that there should be a link between public health and the family because most people who are advised to get incontinence pads have a link with a GP or hospital and in that way we could get them signed up to have their bins collected. A lot of these pads should be going for incineration rather than being mixed in with...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Joan Collins: Dr. Peter Sloane, who is a GP, was on the radio this morning saying he is dying on his knees because his patients have not received the vaccine as yet. He said there has been huge communication issues and inconsistency in delivery schedules. We are only dealing with 70,000 over-85s, so we should be much slicker in delivering the vaccines and getting them into the arms of people who need...

Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jul 2020)

Joan Collins: ...while moving towards the private health sector. Today we are looking at a Bill that deals with two aspects of budget 2020 proposals as agreed. These are that the Government is to extend free GP care to children under the age of eight and to provide free dental care to children under the age of six. This was to be brought in by September 2020. Is that free dental care for children...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: My question is for the ICGP. I was on the Sláintecare committee and we discussed GP accessibility and the number of GPs relative to the population, which has been affected by austerity. It means the most vulnerable people are left at the end of the queue. My own partner had to wait a week and a half for an appointment in the primary healthcare unit in our area. This affects certain...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (4 Dec 2018)

Joan Collins: 396. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in GP GMS contracts nationally; and his views on whether only 306 new general practitioners with GMS contracts from 2008 to 2018 is low. [50586/18]