Written answers

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Department of Health and Children

Primary Care Services

10:00 pm

Photo of Olwyn EnrightOlwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of contracts or leases that have been signed by the Health Service Executive with general practitioners in relation to primary care centres to date; the location of these centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45611/09]

Photo of Mary HarneyMary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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The HSE sought expressions of interest in December 2007 and in July 2008 for the provision of Primary Care Centres for Primary Care Teams. Negotiations with interested parties proceeded in respect of 163 locations. Letters of intent have issued in respect of approximately 80 of these locations. Of that number,

one centre has opened in Letterkenny

7 centres are due to open by the end of January 2010 at Kinnegad, Moate, Gorey, Waterford City, Carlow, Callan and Trim, and

a further 37 centres are scheduled to open during 2010.

The terms and conditions of the leasing arrangement stipulate that the HSE will only sign a lease with a landlord when GP involvement in providing services from the Primary Care Teams accommodated in the Centre has been agreed.

The HSE has indicated that negotiations may not be completed in all of the chosen locations due to planning issues, withdrawal of developers or banking or market conditions.

The HSE is also continuing to develop Primary Care Centres through its Exchequer funded Capital Programme with 7 such Centres opened in 2009 at Irishtown, Marks Lane and Dundrum in Dublin, at Strokestown, Co Roscommon, at Inis Mór, and Clonbur, Co Galway and at Westbury, Co Clare. A Centre is due to open in Mallow in early 2010.

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