# medical-card - Tuesday 5 March, 2019
Since 2012 there has been a 66% increase in the number of people with no private or public health cover, writes Feilim O’Rourke.
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# medical-card - Friday 4 May, 2018
The woman was recently told that her smear test had been reviewed and a different action could have been taken.
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# medical-card - Sunday 11 March, 2018
The HSE has said blood tests should be covered by the card and patients should report their GPs if they are charged.
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# medical-card - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
Only patients suffering from post-shingles pain are automatically covered under drug payment and medical card schemes.
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# medical-card - Wednesday 26 July, 2017
New CSO figures show a 16.4% drop in HSE-funded dental treatments between 2013 and 2016.
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# medical-card - Wednesday 20 July, 2016
Children with a severe disability who receive the Domiciliary Care Allowance will qualify for the card, once legislation is passed.
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# medical-card - Wednesday 1 July, 2015
It’s Wednesday and here’s all the news you need to know.
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# medical-card - Saturday 25 April, 2015
They want medical card holders to be able to get the pill over the counter without having to go to a doctor first.
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# medical-card - Saturday 28 February, 2015
The nine-year-old cancer patient had been denied a discretionary medical card.
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# medical-card - Thursday 5 February, 2015
The campaign is about children with serious illnesses.
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# medical-card - Wednesday 21 January, 2015
The mother of a nine-year-old girl has claimed a statement from the executive revealed private details.
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# medical-card - Tuesday 20 January, 2015
The story of the HSE’s refusal to provide a child with cancer a medical card has sparked criticism of the system.
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# medical-card - Thursday 27 November, 2014
Making GPs the new rationers of medical card extension could destroy long-established bonds of trust between them and their patients.
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# medical-card - Friday 3 October, 2014
I have a significant physical disability; my experience over the past seven months proves that medical card fiasco rumbles on.
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# medical-card - Tuesday 26 August, 2014
Thousands of families are still waiting while some schools start this week.
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# medical-card - Friday 27 June, 2014
Ronan Woodhouse will receive the card within the next seven to 10 days, his mother said.
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# medical-card - Tuesday 17 June, 2014
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.
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# medical-card - Thursday 5 June, 2014
Everyone’s talking about the Tuam babies, redundancies and a manhunt in Canada.
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# medical-card - Sunday 25 May, 2014
The campaign wants the law changed so that any child diagnosed with a serious illness or congenital condition automatically gets a full medical card.
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# medical-card - Tuesday 20 May, 2014
Those launching the campaign said they will maintain a presence outside Government Buildings until legislation is changed.
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# medical-card - Sunday 4 May, 2014
The Coyle family say that it would cost over a thousand euro every month just for the basics to care for their son.
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# medical-card - Sunday 9 March, 2014
The HSE has also contacted 102,027 people to ask them if they’re still in the country.
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# medical-card - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
The biggest leap was between 2011 and 2012, when over 150,000 extra cards were released.
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# medical-card - Sunday 1 December, 2013
The Tánaiste also spoke about his own salary and the ‘squeezed middle’.
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# medical-card - Tuesday 26 November, 2013
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.
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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.
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# medical-card - Wednesday 20 November, 2013
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.
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# medical-card - Wednesday 30 October, 2013
The Health Minister was speaking as the HSE launched a public information campaign today in response to recent problems
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# medical-card - Wednesday 23 October, 2013
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.
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# medical-card - Thursday 17 October, 2013
The Minster for Health also said that it has never been the case that having a particular illness guarantees access to a medical card
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# medical-card - Saturday 27 April, 2013
While Dublin and Cork City are the most popular places for morning after pill consultations.
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# medical-card - Thursday 29 November, 2012
Means-testing medical cards for the elderly got a previous government in trouble – but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea, writes Eoin Lynch.
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# medical-card - Saturday 15 September, 2012
Breaking via The Mire wire: Will Rory McIlroy attend The Gathering? And round 2 of Michael Noonan versus the IMF…
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# medical-card - Tuesday 4 September, 2012
The society says it was not contacted directly by the HSE about the changes, which would affect coeliacs under certain State schemes.
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# medical-card - Tuesday 29 May, 2012
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.
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# medical-card - Saturday 14 April, 2012
Delegates at the Irish Medical Organisation’s annual conference have called on the Minister for Heath to investigate delays in medical cards being issued.
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# medical-card - Thursday 10 November, 2011
Irish Dental Association also highlights the fact that the HSE post of Chief Dental Officer has been lying idle for TEN years.
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# medical-card - Monday 17 October, 2011
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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# medical-card - Friday 14 October, 2011
This was one of a number proposals put forward by the HSE to the Department of Health and Children because of current financial pressures.
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# medical-card - Thursday 15 September, 2011
5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock…
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