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Medical card numbers are surging
Dublin :: Ireland | 4 days ago
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There are now another 96,621 holders of a full medical card since the end of December. And the amount of GP visit cards -- allowing people free doctor visits -- has gone up from 85,546 to 94,381. The rise has been triggered by the unemployment crisis...
Tags: medical cards, Ireland, Dublin, Healthcare in Australia, O'Regan
Medical card 'bias' emerges in new figures
Dublin :: Ireland | 12 days ago
Credibility Dublin are much less likely to be granted discretionary medical cards than individuals living in other parts of the State, it has emerged. New figures from the HSE show more than twice as many discretionary medical cards are held by people in the south...
Tags: medical cards, Dublin/North East, Dublin/Mid Leinster, discretionary medical, HSE West, HSE South, north Dublin, east regions, gp visits, visits cards, Ireland, Dublin, Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland, Leinster, Health Service Executive
STI patients turned away untreated
Dublin :: Ireland | 4 months ago
Credibility IS “without a doubt” an increase in undiagnosed sexually transmitted infections among poorer young women in parts of Dublin as the Well Woman and the Irish Family Planning Association turn away new medical card holders. Alison Begas, Chief Executive of...
Tags: abnormal smear, medical cards, woman centre, annual report, cards holders, cervical screening, smear test, chief executive
Irish Examiner: Over-70s granted 2-month extension on medical cards
Dublin :: Ireland | 12 months ago
Credibility It is the latest in a string of U-turns and changes to the controversial plan announced in the budget in October. Under the original plan, the Government announced it was ending the age group's automatic entitlement to the medical card and reintroducing...
Tags: medical cards
The Irish Times: Medical card system criticised
Dublin :: Ireland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Minister Máire Hoctor was being addressed by Maureen Kavanagh, chief executive of Active Retirement Ireland, at the organisation's national council meeting in Dublin. Ms Kavanagh said that throughout the recent debate on medical cards for the over-70s...
Tags: medical cards, Irish Medical Organisation, Cabinet, active retirement, 70s medical, retirement ireland
Independent, Ireland: 1,300 will miss out because of means test
Dublin :: Ireland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Eilish O'Regan Health Correspondent UP TO 1,300 pensioners who would have automatically received a medical card after turning 70 next year are now expected to lose out. Taoiseach Brian Cowen now insists that with this week's introduction of a more generous...
Tags: medical cards
The Irish Times: Medical card row has hurt FF, O'Dea admits
Limerick :: ME :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility FOR Defence Willie O'Dea yesterday admitted that the controversy surrounding the over-70s' medical card has done a "lot of damage" to Fianna Fáil...Mr O'Dea also admitted yesterday that the initial proposals in relation to the over-70s' medical card were...
Tags: medical cards
RTE.ie: Govt urged to resume business early
Lisbon Falls :: ME :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Medical card issue dominates Budget debate Thursday, 23 October 2008 12:28 Debate on last week's Budget has resumed in the Dáil following the Governement's seven vote win on medical cards last night. This morning, opposition deputies pressed the Government...
Tags: medical cards
New Ross Standard, Ireland: Planning motion goes before council
Dublin :: Ireland | about 1 year ago
Credibility New Ross Town Council last night (Tuesday) to extend the period for planning permission...Kevin Dwyer was due to put forward the motion calling on the Minister of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to publish legislation to amend the Planning...
Tags: elderly, New Ross Town Park, Ireland, planning permissions, Ross Standard, medical cards, Fianna Fail Councillors
Independent, Ireland: Over-70s not the 'most vulnerable'
Dublin :: Ireland | about 1 year ago
Credibility Government, the withdrawal of automatic medical card entitlements is not "an attack on the most needy"...Why is every retired person patronisingly assumed to be "poor and vulnerable"? Until six years ago, better-off older people did not automatically...
Tags: medical cards, Dublin, Ireland, thousand pensioners, currently protesting, automatic medical, cards entitlements
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