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

David Cullinane: 777. To ask the Minister for Health to outline in tabular form the number of GMS panels that are currently vacant without a GP; the location of each panel; the length of time it is vacant; the number of patients on each panel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10769/24]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (29 Feb 2024)

Verona Murphy: ...Carthy - To discuss the need for a special needs school in County Monaghan. Deputy Michael Moynihan - To discuss the use of existing CCTV in towns in County Cork. Deputy Dessie Ellis - To discuss GP and other medical services in Finglas. Deputy Michael McNamara - To discuss the impact on primary schools' special education teacher allocation of Circular 0002/2024. Deputy David Stanton - To...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: ...psychiatrist can formally assess a child with ADHD. Only a child psychiatrist can prescribe a child with medication. The only way to access a child psychiatrist is through CAMHS. This lady's GP, in County Kilkenny, has referred them to CAMHS and received a letter back advising that CAMHS is not accepting referrals at present. I do not know how that is the situation. This person is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

John Brady: ...he did not address the serious issues facing communities across the State. For example, more than 100 Ukrainians have been placed in Carnew in my constituency of Wicklow, but there is only a part-time GP service with waiting times of two to three weeks. That waiting list has grown even longer. There is a crisis in school places and a shortage of teachers and classrooms. This situation...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I welcome the news in relation to the training of GPs but we need to accept that the GP system has changed somewhat. GP practices were generally private. When we were children growing up, GPs were probably available to people 24-7. They ran their own business, did their own administration and knew everything that was wrong with people and all their family members and everyone else. We are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Care of the Elderly (29 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: .... I know it is complicated and in a sense, if someone falls and breaks a leg or a hip then it is even more complicated. However, in a lot of cases, it is just a condition of healthcare that the GP or the nursing home cannot deal with and that is the one we need to work on, that is, how we can fast track them from the accident and emergency department into the appropriate setting in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I am not aware of a reduction in the SouthDoc out of hours GP service at the Blackpool treatment centre. Services are provided by SouthDoc by appointment basis across all treatment centres. When an individual contacts SouthDoc all relevant information is taken. The nature and the clinical condition of the patient then determines the service provided. If it is determined that a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024)

Pauline Tully: 49. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the issue of the GP service in Swanlinbar, County Cavan; if the HSE has agreed to meet with the residents to discuss potential solutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9714/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Patricia Ryan: 59. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he and his Department have in place to address the severe shortage of GPs in the south Kildare area, to address the fact that there is an almost two week wait to obtain a GP appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9740/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

David Cullinane: 73. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase access to rural GP and local health care services; to report on his engagements with his Department and Health Service Executive officials and an organisation (details supplied) regarding the development of a directly employed GP contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9680/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Coverage (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...would cover claims over a certain cap (amount) against private consultants arising from adverse clinical events occurring after 1st February 2004 for work undertaken in private hospitals. Dentists and GP’s in public practice employed directly by the HSE are covered by the CIS arrangements. In relation to GPs, as private practitioners, they arrange professional indemnity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (29 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: ...the current system in place by his Department to provide healthcare for residents of IPAS centres and other refugee accommodation; if his Department is providing additional resources to support GP capacity in areas with higher than average numbers of IPAS centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9658/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ... project - proceeding to tender for a main contractor and enabling works being carried out on site. 17 of the 19 maternity hospitals are providing full termination of pregnancy services, as prescribed in the 2018 Act, with services commencing in the final two hospital sites in 2024. Number of GPs and women’s health service contractors providing this service is now 437 with at...

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...,000 farmers are waiting for ACRES payments, and there are never-ending waiting lists for CAMHS, early intervention services, CDNTs, assessments of need, spinal surgeries, driver tests, dentist and GP appointments. The list goes on. Since the summer we have had countless hours of debate in this House about RTÉ burning money and here we are again today with yet more new...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Heydon: ...group. The shingles vaccine is not currently provided as part of the national immunisation programme. It is open to those aged 50 years and older who wish to receive the vaccine to consult with their GP or pharmacist in order to arrange to receive the vaccine privately for a fee. Following a request from the Minister for Health, HIQA is carrying out a health technology assessment on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...per 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (28 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Stephen Donnelly: Practice nurses are not contracted with the HSE to work under the General Practitioner (GP) Chronic Disease Management (CDM) programme. GPs are private practitioners and as such, privately employ practice staff as they see fit and as suitable to the particular needs of their practice. Under the GMS scheme, GPs are paid a subsidy towards the cost of employing a practice nurse and/or a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Development of a National Hearing Care Plan: Chime (28 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

.... The membership being considered at the time was to include staff from the Department and the HSE. We also were told it would include someone from the Department of Social Protection and a GP, which we believed was good. However, that was the last we heard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...a terminal illness with an estimated 24 months or fewer to live. As Deputy Ó Cathasaigh said, medical professionals can certify that. We can get these people's oncologist, treating physician or GP to sign a certificate to certify that the expectation is that the person has less than two years to live. That is why we have stuck at existing definitions and schemes so that it is...