Results 1-2 of 2 for narcolepsy segment:6906785
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (10 Oct 2017)
Clare Daly: 408. To ask the Minister for Health further to the refusal by the HSE to provide a person diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving the pandemrix vaccine (details supplied) with a medical card, his views on whether it is appropriate that the HSE is refusing to accept a diagnosis of narcolepsy from an English hospital and is requesting that the person be diagnosed at enormous cost by one of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (10 Oct 2017)
Simon Harris: ...cards for those who have been diagnosed have been provided to allow unlimited access to GP care and any prescribed medication, physiotherapy and occupational therapy assessments. Diagnosis of narcolepsy involves a specialised sleep study system which is currently only available in the Mater Private. It is intended that diagnoses will be carried out in the planned Centre of Excellence for...