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Anybody else think this visit should have been a suprise visit. Or better still have an auditor go in unannounced instead of a bus load of Oireachtas members?
A delegation from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children is to visit the Health Service Executive's medical card centre in Finglas, Dublin.
It follows severe criticism over delays in processing applications, renewals and claims that some documents submitted by patients have been lost.
Committee chairman Jerry Buttimer has said that some people have waited up to nine months for their medical card.
The group wants to see at first-hand the processing system.
Recently the HSE deployed an extra 20 staff to the office which now has 150 staff.
Minister of State Roisin Shorthall who has responsibility for the area said last week that people waiting to get their card renewed can use their old cards while waiting.
The centralised processing system was introduced last year by the HSE to make the system more efficient.
Anybody else think this visit should have been a suprise visit. Or better still have an auditor go in unannounced instead of a bus load of Oireachtas members?
A delegation from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children is to visit the Health Service Executive's medical card centre in Finglas, Dublin.
It follows severe criticism over delays in processing applications, renewals and claims that some documents submitted by patients have been lost.
Committee chairman Jerry Buttimer has said that some people have waited up to nine months for their medical card.
The group wants to see at first-hand the processing system.
Recently the HSE deployed an extra 20 staff to the office which now has 150 staff.
Minister of State Roisin Shorthall who has responsibility for the area said last week that people waiting to get their card renewed can use their old cards while waiting.
The centralised processing system was introduced last year by the HSE to make the system more efficient.
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