# medical-cards - Friday 2 November, 2018
Ireland’s two-tiered system contributes to the type of service patients receive, even from public providers, a new report has found.
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# medical-cards - Tuesday 2 May, 2017
Children who receive the Domiciliary Care Allowance are now eligible for a full medical card.
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# medical-cards - Tuesday 13 December, 2016
And pensioners will receive cheaper medicine.
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# medical-cards - Monday 8 August, 2016
A backlog is expected once the issue is resolved.
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 20 July, 2016
Here’s everything you need to know as you start your day.
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Children with a severe disability who receive the Domiciliary Care Allowance will qualify for the card, once legislation is passed.
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 16 December, 2015
The HSE says that a growing and ageing population is putting a strain on the service.
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# medical-cards - Friday 4 December, 2015
Some GPs continue to pass the cost of the tests onto medical card holders, a practice not sanctioned by the HSE.
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 1 July, 2015
Children and young adults under 18 will be automatically granted medical cards.
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
Some Magdelene survivors are “disappointed” with government support measures.
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# medical-cards - Friday 24 April, 2015
Although hopefully most of them don’t actually have the plague.
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# medical-cards - Friday 17 April, 2015
The IDA is calling on the Tánaiste to reinstate the PRSI dental scheme.
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# medical-cards - Tuesday 31 March, 2015
GPs have blamed the HSE, but the organisation says the issue has been addressed.
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# medical-cards - Thursday 12 March, 2015
‘As a parent of a child with a disability, I never thought I’d end up taking cards off children with a disability’.
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# medical-cards - Thursday 12 February, 2015
“It’s not that the system isn’t sympathetic, it is – who wouldn’t be?”
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 28 January, 2015
The family were denied a discretionary medical card.
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 21 January, 2015
The mother of a nine-year-old girl has claimed a statement from the executive revealed private details.
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# medical-cards - Sunday 30 November, 2014
“Do you think the Government would give a card back just if people wrote to them? Not in a million years. Not on your nelly.”
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 26 November, 2014
Who told whom what, and when?
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Our Children’s Health has welcomed yesterday’s announcements on medical card reform, but still has some outstanding concerns.
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# medical-cards - Tuesday 25 November, 2014
An array of changes to the medical card system were announced today.
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# medical-cards - Saturday 11 October, 2014
Warning to governments: Children’s shoes should be avoided at all costs.
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# medical-cards - Friday 3 October, 2014
The Minister for Health said he will bring a series of proposals to Cabinet in the coming weeks on discretionary medical card reform.
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# medical-cards - Thursday 2 October, 2014
Everyone’s talking about jobs, Phil Hogan and protests in Hong Kong.
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A PAC report said the reviews are a waste of money.
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 24 September, 2014
GPs said that the lack of funding and resources available to them have made Ireland “the laughing stock of Europe”.
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# medical-cards - Monday 15 September, 2014
The Fianna Fáil leader is accusing the Government of acting ‘fraudulently’ on the issue.
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 3 September, 2014
With the Cabinet back, and the Israeli ambassador being grilled by TDs, it was also a busy day for protests at Government Buildings.
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# medical-cards - Sunday 27 July, 2014
It’s the weekend – and here’s everything that you need to know as you start your day.
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# medical-cards - Tuesday 22 July, 2014
The Health Minister has said he will consider proposals from an expert panel on medical card eligibility.
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# medical-cards - Monday 21 July, 2014
The CEO of Jack & Jill has written to Minister Varadkar and the Taoiseach about the medical card issue.
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# medical-cards - Thursday 10 July, 2014
Epipens, discretionary medical cards and medicinal marijuana all came up in today’s Oireachtas Health Committee meeting. There was even a Beyoncé & Jay Z reference.
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 2 July, 2014
Currently the eligibility period is six months, though one in five people who have these cards live longer and are then forced to undergo a means test.
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# medical-cards - Monday 30 June, 2014
The closing date for submissions to the expert panel is today.
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# medical-cards - Monday 23 June, 2014
The Labour leadership contender has given a wide-ranging interview to TheJournal.ie today. Here is some of what she said.
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# medical-cards - Wednesday 18 June, 2014
There are concerns that thousands of people who didn’t respond to the HSE will now be left without a medical card.
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# medical-cards - Tuesday 17 June, 2014
Campaigners want temporary measures to be introduced that will improve the application process for new applicants.
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5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Gerry Adams said the “embarrassing u-turn” proved that James Reilly should not continue as health minister.
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Cards will be restored to people who have serious medical conditions but lost them under a HSE review.
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