Elderly woman with medical card pursued by debt collectors after private hospital treatment
The HSE has defended the use of debt collection agencies.
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The HSE has defended the use of debt collection agencies.
As recently as June this year, the government was exploring this as a possibility.
Since 2012 there has been a 66% increase in the number of people with no private or public health cover, writes Feilim O’Rourke.
The woman was recently told that her smear test had been reviewed and a different action could have been taken.
The HSE has said blood tests should be covered by the card and patients should report their GPs if they are charged.
Only patients suffering from post-shingles pain are automatically covered under drug payment and medical card schemes.
New CSO figures show a 16.4% drop in HSE-funded dental treatments between 2013 and 2016.
Children with a severe disability who receive the Domiciliary Care Allowance will qualify for the card, once legislation is passed.
They want medical card holders to be able to get the pill over the counter without having to go to a doctor first.
The nine-year-old cancer patient had been denied a discretionary medical card.
The campaign is about children with serious illnesses.
The mother of a nine-year-old girl has claimed a statement from the executive revealed private details.
The story of the HSE’s refusal to provide a child with cancer a medical card has sparked criticism of the system.
Making GPs the new rationers of medical card extension could destroy long-established bonds of trust between them and their patients.
I have a significant physical disability; my experience over the past seven months proves that medical card fiasco rumbles on.
Thousands of families are still waiting while some schools start this week.
Ronan Woodhouse will receive the card within the next seven to 10 days, his mother said.
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.
Everyone’s talking about the Tuam babies, redundancies and a manhunt in Canada.
The campaign wants the law changed so that any child diagnosed with a serious illness or congenital condition automatically gets a full medical card.
Those launching the campaign said they will maintain a presence outside Government Buildings until legislation is changed.
The Coyle family say that it would cost over a thousand euro every month just for the basics to care for their son.
The HSE has also contacted 102,027 people to ask them if they’re still in the country.
The biggest leap was between 2011 and 2012, when over 150,000 extra cards were released.
The Tánaiste also spoke about his own salary and the ‘squeezed middle’.
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.
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.
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.
The Health Minister was speaking as the HSE launched a public information campaign today in response to recent problems
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.
The Minster for Health also said that it has never been the case that having a particular illness guarantees access to a medical card
While Dublin and Cork City are the most popular places for morning after pill consultations.
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The society says it was not contacted directly by the HSE about the changes, which would affect coeliacs under certain State schemes.
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.
Delegates at the Irish Medical Organisation’s annual conference have called on the Minister for Heath to investigate delays in medical cards being issued.
Irish Dental Association also highlights the fact that the HSE post of Chief Dental Officer has been lying idle for TEN years.
The Irish Pharmacy Union criticises an Irish Independent report that some chemists mark-up prices by up to 354 per cent.