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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (16 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

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. Currently there...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...month, and the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17-25. In 2023, further measures have facilitated better access to affordable, high-quality healthcare, including an expansion of GP care without charges to children aged 6 and 7, and to people earning no more than the median household income, the abolition of all public in-patient hospital charges for adults, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (16 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...measures are not individual diagnostic tests. Screening is for people who do not have symptoms. Anyone who is worried about symptoms at any time is advised not to wait for screening but to contact their GP immediately, for appropriate follow-up care.

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

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of GP services to medical card and GP visit card holders. Most GPs also hold other HSE contracts for the provision of health services such as services under the Primary Childhood Immunisation Scheme or National Cancer Screening Service. As GPs are self-employed practitioners, they may establish...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (16 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 689. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the health service of providing medical cards including GP visit cards to international protection applicants and beneficiaries of temporary protection from 2022 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16231/24]

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

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of GP services to medical card and GP visit card holders. GPs contracted under the General Medical Services Scheme are required by their contract to make suitable arrangements to enable contact to be made with them, or a locum or deputy, for emergencies outside of normal practice hours. While there...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Cathal Berry: ...is a hard thing to do. Again, that is the whole idea. It is hard to quit smoking, and people need some supports. We need more resources with regard to smoking cessation services, and in particular GPs. Our GP network is so overworked at the moment that you lose the opportunity to have those little opportunistic conversations as a GP to say: "Have you considered smoking cessation, and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Primary Care Centres (11 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Brien: ...care centres, PCCs, across the country in local communities. Primary care centres provide accommodation from which a wide range of primary community care services are delivered, including GP services, primary care teams and nursing, but often also accommodate disability services, dental, older person services and mental health services. Significant progress has been made in the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...month-old child has not been seen since her baby’s three-month check-up. One mother only had the five-day and ten-day check-up and was told that if there were any more issues or concerns, she should go to her GP. An 18-month-old has not had the 20- to 24-month development check and her mother said she was fobbed off when she called about this. She was told to go to her GP but the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...month, and the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17-25. In 2023, further measures have facilitated better access to affordable, high-quality healthcare, including an expansion of GP care without charges to children aged 6 and 7, and to people earning no more than the median household income, the abolition of all public in-patient hospital charges for adults, and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

...cancer and to encourage them to seek help. We then face a challenge when we receive a call to our support line and a person tells us they have a worrying symptom, but they cannot afford to go to a GP. We have run research that states that two in five people have put off going to a GP with cancer symptoms because they could not afford to do so. People also call us to say their GP has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (10 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...care that they cannot afford. Medical cards issued to patients who are terminally ill with a prognosis of 24 months or less do not require subsequent means assessment and are not reviewed. Furthermore, the expansion of GP visit card eligibility to all people who earn up to the median household income has resulted in increase in the qualifying weekly financial thresholds for a GP visit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (10 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and a further €20 million was provided for 2022. This funding has facilitated work in the area of hereditary cancer genetics, including: Recruitment of staff to cancer genetics services. Development of GP referral guidelines for breast family history. Completion of a needs assessment for those with a BRCA gene alteration. Development of online training for health care...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

...for those two payments are very different. In one circumstance, a person might be better off on one of them and, in another circumstance, better off on another. It is a difficult decision. If I had to make a medical decision, my GP will give me advice so that I can make an informed choice, yet people are coming to the social welfare system and not being given that level of information...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...many conditions have improved, leading to people living longer and healthier lives. As Minister for Health, I had the privilege to bring the Sláintecare implementation plan to Government. People are beginning to feel the benefits of Sláintecare with free GP care for more people, the abolition of inpatient hospital charges, the extension of the free contraception scheme and the...

Éirí as Oifig an Taoisigh - Resignation of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...The Lancetacknowledged a few weeks ago, Ireland in the past seven years has become a "more equitable place, not least in terms of health". People live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Most people no longer have to pay to see their GP or stay the night in a public hospital. Survival rates for stroke, heart attacks and many cancers have dramatically improved in the past ten...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Furthermore, Government approved the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 which will disregard income received under the Revenue Commissioners Rent a Room Tax Relief Scheme for medical and GP card holders. I am confident that these measures will remove disincentives to participation in the Scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Apr 2024)

Sorca Clarke: 1223. To ask the Minister for Health what plans are in place to ensure GP cover, given the imminent closure for Coole medical centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13674/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (9 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1251. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GP referrals to cancer rapid access clinics, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [13794/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Framework in conjunction with endometriosis specialists and gynaecologists. This new Model of Care for endometriosis identifies how care for women in this area needs to be delivered and will cover primary (GP) care to local hospital care to specialist complex care. The framework provides for five regional hubs, including Galway (UHG) to coordinate care within the maternity networks....