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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Feb 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...terms of reference to Government shortly. The HSE interim Model of Care for Long COVID is being implemented, building on existing service provision, in addition to establishing new services across GP, community services and acute hospitals, to ensure a national service is in place for all who need it. The HSE and the Department of Health continue to monitor international data and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (21 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Paul Kehoe: 144. To ask the Minister for Health if Ukrainian doctors are able to access the non-EU GP training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8127/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: .... The communication technology is already well established with discharge information being issued as a structured message via Healthlink, meaning it can be ingested into downstream systems, most GP practice systems. The use of Healthmail instead of Healthlink, whilst speeding up the process of issuing discharge summaries by avoiding the need to use post, would not help to standardise the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this answer

Colm Burke: 159. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the relevant bodies to provide funding and support to assist younger GPs to establish practices by providing purpose-built GP premises, thereby avoiding substantial capital expenditure on 'bricks and mortar' (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8195/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Feb 2024)

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. Where a GP GMS vacancy is set to arise in a practice, the HSE is notified in advance and becomes actively involved in the recruitment process to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Medical Research and Training (21 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...Minister for Education and Skills if he will work with the relevant educational and professional bodies to advance a specific rural curriculum and pathway within undergraduate medical education and GP training (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8197/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...progress in this regard. My particular thanks to all those involved in the stroke programme in primary care and our hospitals for making those very real improvements possible. The expansion of the GP contract also includes opportunistic case finding of high blood pressure in those over 45 who hold a GMS or GP-visit card. The contract is now in place and the service commenced this year....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (20 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...eligible for the health supports. It is intended that the enhanced medical card will ensure the provision, without charge, of the following primary and community health services for those eligible:GP services;prescribed drugs, medicines, aids and appliancesdental, ophthalmic and aural services;home nursing;home support;counselling;chiropody/podiatry; andphysiotherapy.As well as the above...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (20 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...6 months for finishing ECCE. Current policy requires that any request for an overage exemption from ECCE eligibility must be supported by a letter from a medical specialist/social worker, not a GP/PHN, specifically recommending why an ECCE service would meet the child’s specific needs in a more appropriate way than a primary school. It is important to note that the overage exemption...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (20 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...means assessment and are not reviewed.As of 1stJanuary 2024, 1,611,187persons hold eligibility for a medical card, of which 184,624cards are provided on a discretionary basis.As of 1stJanuary 2024, 630,474hold eligibility for a GP Visit Card, of which 39,244cards are provided on a discretionary basis.Furthermore, the expansion of GP visit card eligibility to all people who earn up to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Verona Murphy: 586. To ask the Minister for Health if kleinfelters syndrome patients have an eligibility to free blood testing specific to their condition through their own GP practices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7758/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: .... Further information is available here: www2.hse.ie/conditions/shingles/ It is open to any individual who is aged 50 years and older and who wishes to receive the vaccine to consult with their GP or pharmacist. I understand that the cost of a one-dose shingles vaccination service in GP and Pharmacies ranges from approximately €200 to €230 and the cost of a two-dose...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Pauline Tully: I raise the issue of a GP service for Swanlinbar in County Cavan. Since the retirement of the GPs in the area at the end of 2020, there has been a rolling locum contract in place. The HSE has claimed it has advertised the position but has not been able to fill it. Now it says it will ask a GP from Ballyconnell to provide a three-day service to the people of Swanlinbar. They are not happy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...and dentists. We have cut costs for patients across the board, as the Deputy will be aware. We have removed inpatient hospital charges. We have had the biggest expansion of access to free GP care in the history of the State, to 500,000 more people. That means that up to 60% of our population is now eligible for a GP card or medical card. We have reduced the drugs payment scheme cost....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (15 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Norma Foley: ...request for a PE Hall/Sports Gym does not come within the remit of the ASA scheme. Investment and expenditure on Sports Gyms is an element of the overall School Building Programme. The provision of GP rooms and PE Halls/Sports Gyms, at primary and post primary level respectively, and outdoor hard play areas, form part of the accommodation brief for all new school buildings. Almost...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...National Safety Office, Community Healthcare Networks and of the Integrated Care Hubs for Older People with Chronic Diseases. The establishment of the six new HSE Health Regions was approved and increased eligibility for GP access was achieved. Significant investment in workforce and in various Healthy Ireland projects increased health system capacity and improved health awareness and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: 328. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the health services currently covered by medical cards and GP visit cards, with a view to ensuring the inclusion of blood tests; the details of any recent engagement he or his Department has had with GP representative bodies with a view to reaching an agreement that no charges for blood tests would be applied in any circumstances; and if...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...improve the financial position of carers. We have increased the carer support grant which is not means tested. We relaxed the means test for the carer's allowance, increased it and extended free GP care to anyone in receipt of the carer's allowance. We will strive to continue on that pathway of improving things for carers. I appreciate that when it comes to respite services we have...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...expansion in capacity through the funding of 1,228 additional acute beds and 93 critical care beds in hospital settings;An increase of over 24,000 staff through additional recruitment;Expansion of access to free GP care and free contraception; andRemoval of Inpatient Hospital charges.Budget 2024 allocated €22.82 billion to the Department of Health for 2024, €21.77 billion in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (14 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: ...school and two 24 classroom primary schools and accommodation, including 14 classrooms across the three projects, for children with special education needs. The campus project also delivered 3 GP areas, a PE Hall in the post-primary school and 13 ball courts in total. The lands to the south of the site have been designated as a flood retention area as required under the campus flood...