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# medical-card - Wednesday 11 December, 2019
Elderly woman with medical card pursued by debt collectors after private hospital treatment
The HSE has defended the use of debt collection agencies.
# medical-card - Sunday 22 September, 2019
Civil servants were told to look at replacing the Medical Card with the Public Services Card Exclusive
As recently as June this year, the government was exploring this as a possibility.
# medical-card - Tuesday 5 March, 2019
Opinion: A million people have no health cover as low-paid families are excluded from access to the medical card
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
One of 208 women affected by smear test scandal 'fighting' to get medical card back
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
'I left weeping': Medical card patients are still being charged by GPs for blood tests
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
Thousands support campaign to have Versatis patches reinstated for chronic pain sufferers
Only patients suffering from post-shingles pain are automatically covered under drug payment and medical card schemes.
# medical-card - Wednesday 26 July, 2017
There has been a big drop in people getting HSE-funded dental treatments
New CSO figures show a 16.4% drop in HSE-funded dental treatments between 2013 and 2016.
# medical-card - Wednesday 20 July, 2016
Medical cards on the way for thousands of children who have a severe disability
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
The 9 at 9: Wednesday
It’s Wednesday and here’s all the news you need to know.
# medical-card - Saturday 25 April, 2015
Pharmacists want women with medical cards to have easier access to the morning after pill
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
Lucy O'Connor receives medical card after mother's battle with HSE
The nine-year-old cancer patient had been denied a discretionary medical card.
# medical-card - Thursday 5 February, 2015
18-month-old boy hands in petition with 65,000 signatures to Leinster House
The campaign is about children with serious illnesses.
# medical-card - Wednesday 21 January, 2015
Mother of cancer victim claims HSE 'revealed sensitive detail' about daughter's medical card refusal
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's terrible story about her medical card isn't the first - but it was bound to happen"
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
Opinion: Are new medical card plans unfair for GPs?
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
Opinion: 'The medical card review scheme is a shambles'
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
Bus Éireann technical glitch leaves families waiting for yearly tickets
Thousands of families are still waiting while some schools start this week.
# medical-card - Friday 27 June, 2014
'Wonderful news': Ronan gets medical card back after 'exhausting' campaign
Ronan Woodhouse will receive the card within the next seven to 10 days, his mother said.
# medical-card - Tuesday 17 June, 2014
Have a medical card and on Long Term Illness Scheme? You could be due money
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
Here's What Happened Today: Thursday
Everyone’s talking about the Tuam babies, redundancies and a manhunt in Canada.
# medical-card - Sunday 25 May, 2014
Over 50,000 sign petition over discretionary medical cards as parents say 'no more'
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
'How sick does my child have to be?' - Campaign calls for medical cards for all seriously ill children
Those launching the campaign said they will maintain a presence outside Government Buildings until legislation is changed.
# medical-card - Sunday 4 May, 2014
'Why was the medical card taken from our son who has a rare disease?'
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
HSE launched over 640,000 medical card reviews last year
The HSE has also contacted 102,027 people to ask them if they’re still in the country.
# medical-card - Tuesday 7 January, 2014
Over 700,000 more medical cards have been issued in the last decade
The biggest leap was between 2011 and 2012, when over 150,000 extra cards were released.
# medical-card - Sunday 1 December, 2013
Gilmore: Medical card cuts are still as set out in the Budget
The Tánaiste also spoke about his own salary and the ‘squeezed middle’.
# medical-card - Tuesday 26 November, 2013
“This is the worst small country in the western world to be sick in”
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.
Here’s what happened today: Tuesday
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
Taoiseach knew about medical card case he says he wasn't told about
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
'It is a balancing act': Reilly apologises over medical card problems
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
HSE withdraws, then reinstates, medical card of 6-year-old with Down syndrome
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
“There has been no change in policy in relation to medical cards” – James Reilly
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
Monday is the most common day women request the morning-after pill
While Dublin and Cork City are the most popular places for morning after pill consultations.
# medical-card - Thursday 29 November, 2012
Column: Medical cards are a hot issue – but the Government shouldn’t shy away
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.
# medical-card - Saturday 15 September, 2012
Here is the week's news... skewed
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
Coeliac Society "seeking clarification" on product allowance cuts
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
Boots to cut cost of prescription medicines for customers in Ireland
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
Call for urgent review of the medical card applications system
Delegates at the Irish Medical Organisation’s annual conference have called on the Minister for Heath to investigate delays in medical cards being issued.
# medical-card - Thursday 10 November, 2011
Money from 'sugar tax' should go to dental schemes, say 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
Union criticises 'flawed' newspaper report on pharmacy mark-ups
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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Poll: Are you still using the Covid-19 tracker app?
IT’S A MONTH since the launch of the HSE’s new Covid-19 contact tracing app.
Since then, the app has had well over one million downloads, with the take-up rate heralded as being “the most successful launch” of the app anywhere in the world, said HSE CEO Paul Reid last month.
The app is intended to help contact tracing, particularly with people who aren’t family and friends, and uses Bluetooth technology to determine whether you’ve been a close contact of someone who’s tested positive for the virus.
Users are encouraged to switch on their Bluetooth settings, and to check in with their symptoms every day. The bluetooth function means that users will be notified via the app if they have been a close contact of a confirmed case.
As cases begin to rise again – particularly in Kildare, Laois and Offaly – health officials fear that transmission could once again spread within the community.
Of the 174 cases reported yesterday, around 50 of them were reported outside of the three counties now under new restrictions.
With that in mind, we want to know: Are you still using the Covid-19 tracker app?
Poll Results:
Yes, I check in every day (3969)
Yes, I check in most days (3390)
I didn't download it (2944)
Yes, but I only check in once or twice per week (2287)
No, I've stopped using it (2121)
Yes, but I only have the bluetooth contact tracing function enabled (1466)
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