Health Professionals (Variations of Payments to General Practitioners) Regulations 2016.
Jurisdiction | Ireland |
Year | 2016 |
Citation | IR SI 233/2016 |
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 13th May, 2016. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Minister for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 9 (amended by section 8 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2015 (No. 39 of 2015)), of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 (No. 5 of 2009), (as adapted by the Health and Children (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 ( S.I. No. 219 of 2011 )), having complied with subsections (4), (7) and (13) of that section, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, hereby makes the following regulations: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health Professionals (Variations of Payments to General Practitioners) Regulations 2016. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. In these Regulations— | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“Capitation Agreement” means an agreement between the Health Service Executive and a general practitioner made in accordance with the conditions specified by the Minister for Health in 1989 regarding the provision of services to eligible persons under section 58 of the Health Act 1970 (No. 1 of 1970) by general practitioners, as amended from time to time; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“day consultation” means a consultation during normal hours of a general practitioners surgery as agreed between the Health Service Executive and that general practitioner; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“Fee Per Item Agreement” means an agreement between the Health Service Executive and a general practitioner made in accordance with the conditions specified by the Minister for Health in 1972 regarding the provision of services to eligible persons under section 58 of the Health Act 1970 (No. 1 of 1970) by general practitioners, as amended from time to time; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“GMS panel” means the total number of patients of a general practitioner to whom the general practitioner provides services under the General Medical Services Scheme; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“late consultation” means a consultation other than a day consultation or a night consultation; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“night consultation” means a consultation during the period between midnight and 8 a.m. the following day; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“practice unit” means— | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a) a practice comprised of a single general practitioner or a partnership of more than one general practitioner, or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(b) a group practice of more than one general practitioner providing general practitioner services from the same centre of practice; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“qualifying area” means an area which has a population of less than or equal to 2,000 within a 4.8 kilometre radius of the principal practice address of a practice unit; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
“Regulations of 2013” means the Health Professionals (Reduction of Payments to General Practitioners) Regulations 2013 ( S.I. No. 277 of 2013 ). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3. These Regulations shall apply to payments in respect of services rendered by a general practitioner to or on behalf of the Health Service Executive under the General Medical Services Scheme, the Health (Amendment) Act 1996 , the Maternity and Infant Care Scheme and the Heartwatch Programme. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4. Subject to Regulation 5, the amounts of the payments that shall be made to a general practitioner in respect of the services referred to in Regulation 3 from the date of the making of these Regulations shall be those specified in Schedules 1 to 18. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5. In determining the size of a general practitioner’s GMS panel for the purposes of calculating the amount of an allowance referred to in Schedule 8 that is payable (if any) to the general practitioner in respect of practice support, every patient on that general practitioner’s GMS panel who is 70 years or over shall count as 2 patients. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6. The Regulations of 2013 are revoked. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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