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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (23 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Where a GMS patient, a person that 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 at least three GPs in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (7 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Where a GMS patient, a person that 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 at least three GPs in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Where a GMS patient, a person that 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 at least three GPs in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (24 Jan 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...). Just to note that this information is all publicly available online and the list should not be taken to be exhaustive. Location of Protest Date of Protest GP surgery Galway January 2019 NMH May 2019 NMH National Maternity Hospital July 2019 NMH National Maternity Hospital ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Medical card and GP visit card holders are registered onto the panel of the GMS GP that provides their GP care. In accordance with the GMS contract, GMS GPs must ensure there is no discrimination or differentiation between the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract for the provision of services without charge on behalf of the HSE for patients who hold a medical card or GP visit card. When a patient on a GP's GMS panel is transferred to the GMS panel of another GP, the patient's former GP, subject to the written consent of the patient, transfers the patient's medical records (or a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (30 May 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Where a vacancy arises in a practice with a GMS contract, the HSE becomes actively involved in the recruitment process to find a replacement GP. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE has the power to assign medical card and GP visit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Feb 2021)

Anne Rabbitte: Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. GPs are reimbursed by the HSE for the provision of those services. Where a medical card or GP visit card holder experiences difficulty in finding a GP to accept him/her as a patient, or where the person has been removed from another GP's list or refused entry onto...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (26 Mar 2019)

Simon Harris: Where a medical card or GP visit card holder experiences difficulty in finding a GP to accept him/her as a patient, or where the person has been removed from another GP's list or refused entry onto a GP's list, the HSE 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 can make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (7 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The GMS scheme operates under a choice of doctor principle, meaning that patients who hold a medical or GP visit card have the freedom to choose their GP, or move from one GP to another, provided the new GP is willing to accept the patient to their panel, and that the GP concerned holds a GMS contract. Patients who wish to change their GMS GP can do so via the “Change of GP...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Although GPs will ordinarily accept new patients who hold a medical or GP visit card on to their GMS panel, a GP may choose not to accept such a patient. Where a GP chooses not to except a new patient who holds a medical or GP visit card, the HSE may request, in confidence, the reason for that decision. Additionally, the GMS GP contract stipulates that the maximum number of medical card...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to eligible persons, persons who hold a medical card or a GP visit card. GPs are reimbursed by the HSE for the provision of those services. The HSE may assign an eligible person to another GP where their GP is resigning or where their GP's GMS contract is otherwise terminated. In addition, where an eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The GMS scheme operates under a choice of doctor principle, meaning that patients who hold a medical or GP visit card have the freedom to choose their GP, or move from one GP to another, provided the new GP is willing to accept the patient to their panel, and that the GP concerned holds a GMS contract. Patients who wish to change their GMS GP can do so via the “Change of GP...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (17 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 836 and 837 together. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Currently there are almost 2,500 GPs contracted to provide services under the GMS Scheme and as at 1 January,18 panels, or less than 1%, are vacant. Where a vacancy arises in a practice with a GMS contract,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Simon Harris: Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts with GPs to provide services to provide services to medical card and GP visit card holders. The GP contract stipulates that GPs must make suitable arrangements to enable contact to be made with them, or a locum/deputy, for urgent cases outside normal practice hours. Many GPs choose to participate in GP out of hours cooperatives to meet this contractual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (22 Mar 2022)

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. Under the terms...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (5 Mar 2020)

Simon Harris: GPs are independent practitioners who hold contracts with the HSE for the provision of services to medical card and GP visit card holders. The HSE does not collect data in relation to the number of GP’s who are not in a position to accept new GMS or private patients onto their patient lists. The GMS GP contract stipulates that the maximum number of medical card or GP visit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (10 Dec 2013)

Alex White: The General Medical Services (GMS) Scheme requires medical card and GP visit card holders to choose their GP from a list of locally based doctors who hold a GMS contract. Where a GP retires from the GMS scheme and the HSE is planning to assign the retiring GP’s panel to a new GP after open competition, the HSE may, in the interim, assign persons on the retiring GP’s panel to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Dec 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the General Medical Service contract, the HSE may assign an eligible person, a person who holds a medical card or GP visit card, to a GP’s panel where that person has unsuccessfully applied to at least three GMS GPs in their local area, or fewer if there are fewer GPs in the area. Assignments are reviewed on request from the GP concerned after a period of six months from the date...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (3 Oct 2018)

Simon Harris: Where a medical card or GP visit card holder experiences difficulty in finding a GP to accept him/her as a patient, the HSE has the power to assign that person to a GP's GMS patient list where the person has been removed from another GP's list or refused entry onto a GP's list, and the person has unsuccessfully applied to at least three GPs in the area who are contracted to provide services...