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Contact centre will assure seamless service experience for customers and stakeholder groups

The IMO will negotiate further on a full chronic disease management (CDM) programme in general practice “when the proper financial resources are allocated to GPs”, the union’s GP Chairman Dr Padraig McGarry has said, revealing that its negotiating team was unwilling to provide a full chronic disease management programme “for the resources which were on offer” in recent talks.

Dr Ruairi Hanley believes introducing Physician Associates into Ireland is not the magic bullet to solve all our health service wows – but paying GPs what they are owed would be a good start

The National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) is set to survey GPs in the next number of weeks to establish how much money they are owed in outstanding fees by the HSE Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) — a practice it fears may be widespread.

The decision to suspend the review of medical cards and restore cards issued on a discretionary basis “has  impacted on normal operational performance”, the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) has said.

The Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) is facing a cost reduction challenge of €294 million this year, even though the free GP care scheme is expected to deliver savings in 2014, according to the latest HSE performance figures.

A proposal made by the Joint Oireachtas Health Committee — to include a ‘nominated person’ on forms going to the medical card centre, to whom the HSE would also write — is now being considered by the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS).

The North East GP branch of the IMO will propose an IMO AGM motion calling for a fundamental review of the management structures of the GMS.

Dear Editor, Patrick Burke of the PCRS wrote to family doctors on March 12, 2014  about charging for routine phlebotomy services.

By Gary Culliton.