# medical-card - Wednesday 11 December, 2019
# HSE
# HSE
The HSE has defended the use of debt collection agencies.
# medical-card - Sunday 22 September, 2019
# Transparency
# Transparency
As recently as June this year, the government was exploring this as a possibility.
# medical-card - Tuesday 5 March, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
Since 2012 there has been a 66% increase in the number of people with no private or public health cover, writes Feilim O’Rourke.
# medical-card - Friday 4 May, 2018
# CervicalCheck
# CervicalCheck
The woman was recently told that her smear test had been reviewed and a different action could have been taken.
# medical-card - Sunday 11 March, 2018
# Free Healthcare
# Free Healthcare
The HSE has said blood tests should be covered by the card and patients should report their GPs if they are charged.
# medical-card - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
# Versatis
# Versatis
Only patients suffering from post-shingles pain are automatically covered under drug payment and medical card schemes.
# medical-card - Wednesday 26 July, 2017
# Lisa Needs Braces
# Lisa Needs Braces
New CSO figures show a 16.4% drop in HSE-funded dental treatments between 2013 and 2016.
# medical-card - Wednesday 20 July, 2016
# Welcome Change
# Welcome Change
Children with a severe disability who receive the Domiciliary Care Allowance will qualify for the card, once legislation is passed.
# medical-card - Wednesday 1 July, 2015
# 9 At 9
# 9 At 9
It’s Wednesday and here’s all the news you need to know.
# medical-card - Saturday 25 April, 2015
# Contraception
# Contraception
They want medical card holders to be able to get the pill over the counter without having to go to a doctor first.
# medical-card - Saturday 28 February, 2015
# Good News
# Good News
The nine-year-old cancer patient had been denied a discretionary medical card .
# medical-card - Thursday 5 February, 2015
# Medical Card
# Medical Card
The campaign is about children with serious illnesses.
# medical-card - Wednesday 21 January, 2015
# Data
# Data
The mother of a nine-year-old girl has claimed a statement from the executive revealed private details.
# medical-card - Tuesday 20 January, 2015
# Lucy O'connor
# Lucy O'connor
The story of the HSE’s refusal to provide a child with cancer a medical card has sparked criticism of the system.
# medical-card - Thursday 27 November, 2014
# Health
# Health
Making GPs the new rationers of medical card extension could destroy long-established bonds of trust between them and their patients.
# medical-card - Friday 3 October, 2014
# Health Care
# Health Care
I have a significant physical disability; my experience over the past seven months proves that medical card fiasco rumbles on.
# medical-card - Tuesday 26 August, 2014
# Along In A Minute
# Along In A Minute
Thousands of families are still waiting while some schools start this week.
# medical-card - Friday 27 June, 2014
# Ronan's Cause
# Ronan's Cause
Ronan Woodhouse will receive the card within the next seven to 10 days, his mother said.
# medical-card - Tuesday 17 June, 2014
# Charges
# Charges
The HSE is to refund the prescription charge that some people paid even though they had a medical card and were on the LTI scheme.
# medical-card - Thursday 5 June, 2014
# News Fix
# News Fix
Everyone’s talking about the Tuam babies, redundancies and a manhunt in Canada.
# medical-card - Sunday 25 May, 2014
# Families Battle
# Families Battle
The campaign wants the law changed so that any child diagnosed with a serious illness or congenital condition automatically gets a full medical card .
# medical-card - Tuesday 20 May, 2014
# Our Childrens Health
# Our Childrens Health
Those launching the campaign said they will maintain a presence outside Government Buildings until legislation is changed.
# medical-card - Sunday 4 May, 2014
# Alexander Coyle
# Alexander Coyle
The Coyle family say that it would cost over a thousand euro every month just for the basics to care for their son.
# medical-card - Sunday 9 March, 2014
# Tighten Up
# Tighten Up
The HSE has also contacted 102,027 people to ask them if they’re still in the country.
# medical-card - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
The biggest leap was between 2011 and 2012, when over 150,000 extra cards were released.
# medical-card - Sunday 1 December, 2013
# Labour
# Labour
The Tánaiste also spoke about his own salary and the ‘squeezed middle’.
# medical-card - Tuesday 26 November, 2013
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
It emerged today that MS sufferer Marie Fleming was asked by the HSE to provide proof of her condition in order to have her medical card renewed.
# News Fix
# News Fix
Today everyone’s been talking about the HSE’s €2.6 million payout, Marie Fleming being asked to provide proof of her illness and why President Higgins’ adviser left her job.
# medical-card - Wednesday 20 November, 2013
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
Enda Kenny said nobody told him about the case of eight-year-old Ronan Woodhouse at the Fine Gael conference last month, despite committing to meeting the child and his mother at that event.
# medical-card - Wednesday 30 October, 2013
# Sorry
# Sorry
The Health Minister was speaking as the HSE launched a public information campaign today in response to recent problems
# medical-card - Wednesday 23 October, 2013
# Health Cuts
# Health Cuts
A family faced having to pay for their daughter’s oxygen tanks and feeding tubes after the HSE granted them a GP visit card instead of a full medical card .
# medical-card - Thursday 17 October, 2013
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
The Minster for Health also said that it has never been the case that having a particular illness guarantees access to a medical card
# medical-card - Saturday 27 April, 2013
# Morning After Pill
# Morning After Pill
While Dublin and Cork City are the most popular places for morning after pill consultations.
# medical-card - Thursday 29 November, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
Means-testing medical card s for the elderly got a previous government in trouble – but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea, writes Eoin Lynch.
# medical-card - Saturday 15 September, 2012
# Not The News
# Not The News
Breaking via The Mire wire: Will Rory McIlroy attend The Gathering? And round 2 of Michael Noonan versus the IMF…
# medical-card - Tuesday 4 September, 2012
# Health
# Health
The society says it was not contacted directly by the HSE about the changes, which would affect coeliacs under certain State schemes.
# medical-card - Tuesday 29 May, 2012
# Health
# Health
The pharmacy says that it is to lower the cost of the majority of its prescription medicines which will save customers on average 25 per cent.
# medical-card - Saturday 14 April, 2012
# Healthcare
# Healthcare
Delegates at the Irish Medical Organisation’s annual conference have called on the Minister for Heath to investigate delays in medical card s being issued.
# medical-card - Thursday 10 November, 2011
# Dentists
# Dentists
Irish Dental Association also highlights the fact that the HSE post of Chief Dental Officer has been lying idle for TEN years.
# medical-card - Monday 17 October, 2011
# Pharmacies
# Pharmacies
The Irish Pharmacy Union criticises an Irish Independent report that some chemists mark-up prices by up to 354 per cent.
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