By Dara Gantly & Gary Culliton. The HSE has already received up to 50 applications from GPs for a GMS contract under new rules, which came into force this week.
IMO meets the PCRS on out-of-hours claims
March 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. An arbitrator in relation to GP out-of-hours working has not yet been appointed, although it was hoped that agreement might have been reached on a name before a meeting between the IMO and the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS), which was due to take place on Wednesday, March 14, on existing outstanding [...]
Some GPs have reimbursed patients over phlebotomy
March 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. GPs have reimbursed patients in a number of cases, following receipt of correspondence from the HSE regarding phlebotomy services, it has emerged.
HSE urged to pay GPs for ABPM
March 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Given the clinical importance of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM), the HSE should formally recognise its economic benefit in primary care and offer appropriate remuneration to GPs in Ireland for its use in practice, new research has recommended.
New recruitment ‘model’ for the supply of doctors
March 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. A new ‘supply and demand model’ for GP and practice nurse services is now available, the programme for government ‘report card’ has revealed.
Rates of home visits are ‘down to doctors’
March 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Rates of home visits, a valuable tool in primary care, differ significantly between general practices, sometimes by as much as a nine-fold variation, largely due to differences in doctors’ behaviour.
Arbitrator is due — IMO
March 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. It is hoped that an arbitrator on GP out-of-hours working will be appointed before an IMO GP Committee meeting with the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS), which is scheduled for next week.
NEDOC driver numbers cut
March 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. The HSE is to reducing the number of drivers employed at the NEDOC service due to a reduction in the number of GPs rostered in each of the four treatment centres.
GP accommodation goes to arbitration
March 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. Accommodation for a group of Ballyfermot GPs has been referred to arbitration, after a dispute that has lasted for nine months. The GPs operating in the old Ballyfermot centre have been offered accommodation in a new centre but, to date, have not taken up that offer.
Finglas move may have been ‘premature’
March 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
By Gary Culliton. The Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health has suggested it may have been “premature” for the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) to centralise its medical card processing in Finglas last July.
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