Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients under the GMS that are registered with a primary healthcare centre (details supplied); the number of GPs registered at this centre; the number of patients per GP; and the average waiting time for an in-person consultation. [50667/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract for the provision of GP services without charge on behalf of the HSE for patients who hold a medical card or GP visit card. People who do not have a medical card or GP visit card attend their GP on a private basis, as such the HSE does not hold information on the number of private patients listed with individual GPs. Furthermore, as GPs are private practitioners, the HSE has no role in relation to the scheduling of consultations at individual GP practices.

I have ask the HSE to provide the Deputy with information regarding the GP service at the primary care centre concerned, as soon as possible.