David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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323. To ask the Minister for Health the maximum number of patients that can be registered with a general practitioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47218/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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GPs are independent practitioners who hold contracts with the HSE under the GMS scheme for the provision of services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders.

Under the terms of the GMS and GP Visit Card contract the maximum number of medical card or GP visit card patients that a GP can have on his/her panel is 2,000, or 2,200 if the GP also holds an under 6 contract, except for in exceptional circumstances where the HSE decides to apply a higher limit. There is no minimum number of patients specified for a panel.

The State does not prescribe the number of private patients that may be registered with a GP; this is a matter for individual GP practices.