Results 1-20 of 29 for gp speaker:Brian Stanley

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: I raise the commitment in the programme for Government with regard to improving primary care services. There is a chronic shortage of GPs in Laois and Offaly. There are 37 practising GPs in Laois, which is one for every 2,483 of the population. Five have resigned in the past two years and four have retired, which is a loss of nine. In Offaly, there are just 31 practising GPs, which breaks...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (16 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 617. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people in counties Laois and Offaly, respectively who are without a GP and are currently on a waiting list for one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15961/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...on budget day with regard to medical cards for those on the median income or below. As I understand it, such a measure would bring nearly 400,000 people into the medical card scheme, albeit for GP visits only. As I understand it, this was to be in place before June. The reply I got to a recent parliamentary question raises questions as to where it is at the moment. With regard to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I flagged this because there are several issues in it that I wish to raise. There is detailed information in this regard concerning GP services and the shortage of GPs. My specific question concerned what the Department was doing in respect of taking on the option of directly employed GPs, as set out in the Sláintecare policy documents. An answer is given stating that a strategic...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: A lot of money is already going into GP practices for those support staff. If we look at the General Medical Services, GMS, contracts-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: -----whether it is through private practice or salaried GPs. We specifically asked questions around recruitment and the pipeline of new GPs, which was an issue that has caused problems. Figures have been given for the number of training places to be increased. It is stated that the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, currently estimates that 890 GPs will graduate from GP training...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (16 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: 734. To ask the Minister for Health when the commitment given in Budget 2023 to give GP medical cards to those with an income of less than the median wage will be implemented. [23193/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: .... Any member who wishes to come in on that should feel free. Is that proposal agreed? I will take it as agreed. If any other member wishes to come in on this, there is a HSE reply regarding the out-of-hours GP service, which we raised previously with the HSE at the committee. The HSE says there is a strategic review: With the improved situation regarding Covid-19, the Minister has ......

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (21 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: 1428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the announcement in Budget 2023 that those on income below the median wage would be eligible for a GP medical card; and when this will be activated. [13442/23]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: If person A and person B were in a private nursing home and both of them were in possession of a full medical card, which was the case at that time as I recall it because there was no GP-visit card then-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack (9 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: Just stick with the GP issue. Deputy O'Connor has limited time. What is being done-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: .... The committee has expressed particular interest in the following matters: disability services including the provision of disability services from outside agencies; emergency care waiting lists; GP services and in particular out-of-hours GP services; and funding for the disability service agencies. Both the HSE and the Department of Health have been informed that a further area of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: I will allow the Deputy in a second time. The first issue I wish to raise relates to out-of-hours GP services. Last year, we dealt with the issue of SouthDoc services being closed in a couple of locations without much warning to the public. The provision and cost of those services were raised. On 23 December, people in Laois-Offaly and Longford-Westmeath in the midlands, which is the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: I acknowledge that individual GPs are doing it. Different GPs in different parts of the State report problems with payment. I am not going to get into specific cases. There was a review of out-of-hours GP services in 2010 and a further review in 2016. I have the recommendations from the 2010 review to hand. I do not have those from 2016 because I understand the 2016 report was never...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...disability services by outside agencies, which are generally section 38 and 39 organisations; emergency care; and measures to tackle waiting lists. At our meeting last week, we agreed to include GP services, in particular out-of-hours services, and funding of voluntary disability services agencies on the agenda. Members may recall I mentioned at the last meeting that I have been told...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: On Christmas Eve, Midoc, a private company which provides out-of-hours GP services in the midlands, ceased trading. The company was paid nearly €8 million last year. HSE management has had to rush in and put a temporary service in place. I give them credit for that but it is a day-to-day service in place until 15 January. Since then, they have been trying to tie up a contract with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...services by outside agencies, that is, section 38 and 39 organisations; emergency care; and measures to tackle waiting lists. An issue arose over the Christmas period. The out-of-hours GP service in the midlands region collapsed and the HSE, according to the best information available to me, had very little warning of this. The service was provided by a private company. It sought...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: I would add to that what staff the HSE is providing and what buildings it is providing. The problem is that while the HSE seems to be providing a lot, the key part of it is the GP provision, which is in many cases administered by a private company. If the private company decides to cease trading, for want of a better term, at a certain date, it will cease trading. That is what happened,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Nov 2022)

Brian Stanley: I raise the issue of primary care centres. As the Tánaiste knows, people are presenting at hospital emergency departments because they cannot get access to a GP or primary care services. The population of towns like Portlaoise has increased, and there is no primary care centre in the town despite the population is heading towards 30,000. There is also a shortage of GPs. The...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...over the past year, many of those are in places like south Dublin, where there is adequate public transport. People in Laois-Offaly are subsidising those. Turning to health, we welcome the decision to adopt our long-advocated proposal to expand the GP visit card. This is a welcome step towards the reformed system under Sláintecare. However, there are no targets to address the...