Results 1-20 of 29 for gp speaker:Annie Hoey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...surgery. She said she did not have the time to have the treatment and could not take another second of living like that. It is a really sad situation for us to be in. The witnesses talked about the GP gatekeeping. Senator Clifford Lee asked about the training that is available and what we know about that. In terms of that gatekeeping, outside of the high level work in terms of...

Joint Committee On Health: Services and Supports for People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...all of that is at. For the purposes of this topic, it is highly problematic. I have not come across anyone so far who has had a negative experience, as people have managed to go back to their GP or whatever. On the subject of GPs, there is an issue where we always have faith. I am particularly interested in adult women with ADHD. The issue of women not being believed in all sorts of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...to understand that the HSE is running annual funding and therefore the way the system rolls down. I had not made the link. I want to ask about two other areas. Mr. Gloster has touched on the GP distribution. I was also down in Clare last week where there were people very upset about accessing GPs, the ten-day wait and so on. I am aware of the rural incentive scheme and so on. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: I wish to discuss a much smaller group of people. I am aware of women who are at risk of having the BRCA gene. I have a trio of sisters whose GP is refusing to refer them for screening because they are too young. One of them is aged 38. They cannot get into another GP practice. It is a small area. Where do people like that go when they come up against a blockage? The older sister is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: The GP is not even engaging with the referral process. Aunts both sides of the family have had breast cancer. The sisters do not know where to go or what to do. Is the advice to get a different GP, during this trying GP time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...it is about a failure to invest in bed capacity, infrastructure and staff. We all know people who have ended up in accident and emergency departments because they have been referred there by their GPs, although perhaps not in the past few weeks because I do not think any sane GP is referring someone into accident and emergency unless it is a very dire situation. However, we all know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...the Joint Committee on Health with regard to having expanded clinical teams, which I believe was the phrase the witnesses themselves used, to provide multiple services in one location. I refer to GPs, nurses, mental health services, physiotherapy and whatever else. I have previously made reference in this committee to the multiple options in the one setting when I was down in University...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...graduate entry medicine have left because of the pressure on the system. I have a number of friends in their late 20s and early 30s who have done this. This is in general and not just on the GP system. We are caught in a never-ending loop of pressure on the system causing people to leave and people not leaving once we deal with the pressure on the system. If we do not get people to...

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...capital city.The north west of the city in particular, the area in which I live, still needs significant investment to address some of the shocking gaps in accessing childcare, early years education, GP services and, in particular, therapies and greater supports for those with disabilities. Many brilliant service providers in the area need far greater support from the Government to meet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...for some comments on that. One of the witnesses referred to the provision of care. The people not providing it are not just conscientious objectors. This has come up in recent months with some GPs I have spoken to, both in public debates and privately, whereby they have said they do not have the capacity to do it. I ask the witnesses to tease that out. Dr. Henchion mentioned that not...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (7 Apr 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...people can pass with dignity and without fear of individuals coming up to them, after they have made up their minds, made this decision, gone to the registered counsellors, engaged with their GPs, discussed it with their families, or indeed none of the above. We voted to allow them to do that, and that is their business. It has been said that it is doing no harm and that it is just quiet...

Seanad: Brain Health and Dementia: Statements (9 Mar 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...It occurred to me I do not even know how to get a blood pressure test. As a young person, I have never had my blood pressure tested. I do not know how I would go about doing that. I will ask my GP the next time I am in. As a young person, that is not something I have had to do. I do not get check-ups on a regular basis. That has gone into my mind. I was also struck yesterday by the...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...for us to have specific issues to focus on and chase after. A couple of weeks ago, doctors and medical professionals appeared before the committee. One witness spoke about a colleague who, as a GP in Australia, prescribed medication for about 30% of patients with mental health difficulties whereas in Ireland, she found herself prescribing for nearly 100% of such patients. I asked the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...I refer to the rates of pay that exist and m y party colleague, Deputy Kelly, listed a number of figures in the Dáil Chamber yesterday, such as the 700 vacant consultant posts. We know about the shortage of GPs across the country from reports by Simon Carswell in The Irish Times. One in five GPs are expected to retire by the end of the decade and we need 2,000 more. In 13 GP areas,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...not be given due priority and consideration. I will also take a moment to reflect on something that came up yesterday at the Sub-Committee on Mental Health. We were having a discussion with GPs and the topic of the prescribing of medication for mental health came up. A GP told an anecdote on the issue. When a friend of hers was in Australia, she was prescribing medication in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Annie Hoey: Thinking about embedded care, and obviously it cannot be the same as in a college setting, but I recall that when I was at UCC, there was a GP surgery downstairs, a mental health service upstairs, a physiotherapist around the corner and a nurse for other things. Obviously, that is one particular setting but all of the care options were provided. It would relieve some of the pressure, as Dr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues Relating to General Practice: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Annie Hoey: I will not go back around as we have spoken a lot about training. The figure of 350 GPs out of a potential 1,000 GPs is a fair whopper of a number, and it could be substantial. Reference is often made to bringing in doctors from abroad. At a previous meeting we had a brief conversation about the ethics of recruiting doctors from overseas and the impact of depleting other countries, and...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...promised that legislation would be introduced on safe-access zones, yet three years on, it is still no dice. Dignity and privacy are two things every patient has a right to expect when attending a GP or hospital. It is a bare minimum, and we will not tolerate any less. As it is, abortion is one of the few services that patients already must worry about being provided by their GP. Only...