Written answers
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Department of Health
Medical Card Data
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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796. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 March 2017; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [13115/17]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The table displays the number of medical cards as of 1 March 2017. These figures were provided by the HSE Primary Care Reimbursement Service to the Department of Health.
Type of Card | Number of cards nationally |
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Medical Cards (inclusive of discretionary) | 1,658,730 |
GP Visit Cards (inclusive of discretionary) | 475,184 |
Discretionary Medical Cards | 118,228 |
Discretionary GP Visit Cards | 35,350 |
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