Tag Archives: Primary Care Centres (PCCs)

Dara Gantly on the merits of having the European Investment Bank open shop in Ireland

Minister for Health Simon Harris and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe broke ground last week on the Summerhill Primary Care Centre project — one of 14 such centres countrywide being delivered on a public private partnership (PPP) basis.

Fourteen Primary Care Centres (PCCs) are to be built across Ireland following agreement of a new €70 million, 25-year loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

The HSE has introduced two exemption thresholds for payment of pension-related deduction (PRD) for this year and yet another one for next year under the Lansdowne Road Agreement (LRA), which will result in the upward revision of pay rates in the health sector grades by up to 2.

The HSE has said that while it had been in advanced discussions with a preferred provider regarding the provision of a new primary care unit (PCU) at a site on Bridge Street, Swords, it will not now be in a position to do so as the provider has said it is no longer interested in developing the primary care centre

Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2016 on 14 public private partnership (PPP) primary care centres that are now due to be delivered by June 2017.

Development is not necessarily a good thing and could prove to be a threat to Irish general practice, according to a motion proposed for debate at the ICGP AGM this weekend by the College’s Clare Faculty, IMT reports.

An Bord Pleanála has refused the HSE permission for the construction of a new three-storey primary care centre in Finglas, Dublin, comprising a primary care team, community mental health team, and GP surgeries, in order to retain a recreational open space for the surrounding community used as a safe play area for children.

The Board of An Bord Pleanála has decided to grant the HSE planning permission for the proposed development of a new primary care centre (PCC) on a site on the grounds adjoining St Augustine’s Priory, Edmondstown Road, Dublin 16, IMT reports.

Fourteen primary care centres (PCCs) will be delivered as part of a single Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract, with construction commencing in late 2015.