Sunday 25 July, 2021
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly brought a memo to Cabinet today to extend the access to the cards for a further three years.
The Irish Dental Association said an unprecedented number of dentists were withdrawing from the official treatment scheme.
Ireland’s two-tiered system contributes to the type of service patients receive, even from public providers, a new report has found.
Children who receive the Domiciliary Care Allowance are now eligible for a full medical card.
And pensioners will receive cheaper medicine.
A backlog is expected once the issue is resolved.
Children with a severe disability who receive the Domiciliary Care Allowance will qualify for the card, once legislation is passed.
The HSE says that a growing and ageing population is putting a strain on the service.
Some GPs continue to pass the cost of the tests onto medical card holders, a practice not sanctioned by the HSE.
Children and young adults under 18 will be automatically granted medical cards.
Some Magdelene survivors are “disappointed” with government support measures.
Although hopefully most of them don’t actually have the plague.
The IDA is calling on the Tánaiste to reinstate the PRSI dental scheme.
GPs have blamed the HSE, but the organisation says the issue has been addressed.
‘As a parent of a child with a disability, I never thought I’d end up taking cards off children with a disability’.
“It’s not that the system isn’t sympathetic, it is – who wouldn’t be?”
The family were denied a discretionary medical card.
The mother of a nine-year-old girl has claimed a statement from the executive revealed private details.
“Do you think the Government would give a card back just if people wrote to them? Not in a million years. Not on your nelly.”
Who told whom what, and when?
Our Children’s Health has welcomed yesterday’s announcements on medical card reform, but still has some outstanding concerns.
An array of changes to the medical card system were announced today.
Warning to governments: Children’s shoes should be avoided at all costs.
The Minister for Health said he will bring a series of proposals to Cabinet in the coming weeks on discretionary medical card reform.
Everyone’s talking about jobs, Phil Hogan and protests in Hong Kong.
A PAC report said the reviews are a waste of money.
GPs said that the lack of funding and resources available to them have made Ireland “the laughing stock of Europe”.
The Fianna Fáil leader is accusing the Government of acting ‘fraudulently’ on the issue.
With the Cabinet back, and the Israeli ambassador being grilled by TDs, it was also a busy day for protests at Government Buildings.
The Health Minister has said he will consider proposals from an expert panel on medical card eligibility.
The CEO of Jack & Jill has written to Minister Varadkar and the Taoiseach about the medical card issue.
Epipens, discretionary medical cards and medicinal marijuana all came up in today’s Oireachtas Health Committee meeting. There was even a Beyoncé & Jay Z reference.
Currently the eligibility period is six months, though one in five people who have these cards live longer and are then forced to undergo a means test.
The closing date for submissions to the expert panel is today.
The Labour leadership contender has given a wide-ranging interview to TheJournal.ie today. Here is some of what she said.
There are concerns that thousands of people who didn’t respond to the HSE will now be left without a medical card.
Campaigners want temporary measures to be introduced that will improve the application process for new applicants.
