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

Stephen Donnelly: GP services are provided without charge to people who hold a medical card or GP visit card under the GMS scheme. Under the terms of the GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...periodic reviews of eligibility in order to ensure that a person continues to meet the qualifying criteria required to continue holding eligibility. It is important to note that where any medical or GP visit card holder has a review process initiated, he/she will continue to retain his or her eligibility for the duration of the review process (typically three months). Every effort is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Welfare Schemes (9 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: Departmental Reviews (9 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Strategic Review of General Practice last year and the review is currently underway. With input from key stakeholders, the review is examining a range of issues affecting general practice including GP training, GP capacity, Out of Hours services reform, the eHealth Agenda, and the financial support model for general practice. The Review will then identify the arrangements necessary to...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...further increases in the number of intern posts will continue to keep pace with future expansion of training programmes to ensure a sufficient pipeline of trainees for increases in Consultant and GP posts. This has been noted in the External Review of the National Number of Medical Intern Posts (Crowe Report, 2022) and more recently the Final Report of the National Taskforce on the...

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

Hildegarde Naughton: ...PrEP programme, managed by the HSE Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme (SHCPP). At present, there are 13 public PrEP clinics in Ireland, four of which are located in Dublin, and 16 private/GP providers who are approved to prescribe PrEP, 15 of which are located in Dublin. Dispensing PrEP is free of charge, as are appointments at the public clinics, however, attendance at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Apr 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: 1474. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a child (details supplied) who, having been referred by his or her GP in February 2023 to the paediatric clinic at University Hospital Limerick, is yet to receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14747/24]

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

Bernard Durkan: ...can be secured for a person (details supplied) who requires same to be completed as soon as possible, whose family are concerned for their well-being, who was in State care aged 5 to 18, and whose GP has now referred them to the appropriate services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14808/24]

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

Thomas Pringle: 1588. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has any plans to reopen a health centre in County Donegal (details supplied) as a working GP surgery; if it will be advertised for a doctor to take over the practice or if he will enter talks with the previous GP who previously had a practice in the building to get a GP back in the village again; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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

Seán Sherlock: 1591. To ask the Minister for Health if an out-of-hours GP service (details supplied) can be extended; his plans to extend the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15298/24]

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...patient to do so. Prescribers will use their professional judgement at all times, and what may work well for one patient may not be appropriate for another. It is a matter for the treating GP to determine in the case of each individual patient what is proper and necessary care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Role of Disabled Persons Organisations and Self Advocacy in Providing Equal Opportunities under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Implementation: Discussion (8 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...a buggy-related injury. After another few weeks had passed, I was still in a small bit of discomfort. I was waking every few nights with a kind of burning pain in my hand. I decided to go to see my GP. He referred me for an MRI even though he could not see anything wrong either. He suggested that maybe I had a ganglion cyst. I am in no way medically minded but when I saw the MRI...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...in delivery on matters of substance. We have made a lot of progress on housing; we have more to do. We have made a lot of progress on healthcare. Some 60% of the population now has ccess to a GP card, which is significant compared to where we were before this Government came into office. I could go on and on about a range of initiatives.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Seán Crowe: ...the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024. The primary aims of the Bill are, first, to provide for rent-a-room income of up to €14,000 per annum to be disregarded from the medical card and GP visit card income assessment process; second, to amend current legislation to clarify regulatory powers concerning the supply and administration of medicinal products; and third, to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: The project brief for the large scale capital project, involves the construction of a new 16 classroom school, a GP Hall and classrooms for children with special educational needs. My Department’s planning and building unit is currently assessing its work programme and priorities for 2024 in the context of overall requirements. The large scale capital project at Lismullen NS...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Mar 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 vacancy arises in a practice with a GMS contract, the HSE becomes actively involved in the recruitment process to find a replacement GP....

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

Róisín Shortall: 311. To ask the Minister for Health the amounts paid to each of the private diagnostics providers under the GP access to the community diagnostics scheme in each of the years since its launch in 2021 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13465/24]

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024) See 20 other results from this debate

David Cullinane: ...the important foundations to building up primary community care but also to take pressure away from our acute hospitals. Again, I welcome and acknowledge that the number of training places for GPs has increased in recent years. However, we also have real pressures in many parts of the country and in many communities. Very often when we hear about a shortage of GPs, people will...