Medical/gp card

Little Miss!

Afternoon all,

Hope someone can help, I applied for a med card in Aug 2011 as i have a long term illness , further info was sent in Sept 2011 - on the website when i put my ref number in i'm told if i'm not contacted by 24/09/11 that i'm to contact the hse.

I have done so almost every 2 weeks since and am being told the same rubbish all the time "we'll send up a query, it'll be 10 days before they reply" None of these queries have been answered. I've emailed the head of client registration and made numerous phone calls. I now don't know where to turn or what to do, could anyone give me some suggestions how to get this sorted

assasins creed

just sent you a private message

Little Miss!

assasins creed wrote: »

just sent you a private message

Thanks for that i'll keep you posted

irelandspurs

were in a similar situation,waiting since june keep getting contradicting letters which are very confusing.

zef

I was waiting from July to January for the medical card, and heard recently that the waiting list is up to 8 months now. (from a C.W.O.)
What i can't understand is why is the waiting time so long, it never was before.
People are enduring genuine suffering and hardship over this, and it is such a cynical practice of the govt. to delay issuing medical cards to people to save a few quid. People who have paid tax all their lives being denied care for months on end, ppl with cancer etc. Makes me sick & angry.
I hope your card comes thru asap. I kept ringing up about mine, good luck.

mbuble

Hi Little Miss,

Are you a new applicant or a renewal? If a renewal then they are now apparently allowing applicants to use their expired medical card numbers:

http://www.herald.ie/lifestyle/health-beauty/families-can-use-outofdate-medical-cards-3016193.html sorry don't know how to embed this.

I would advise emailing your local TD immediately.

Good luck:)

littlefriend

Hi there, I also applied in August. I got a letter in October for some o/s information (which they already had). They got the documents on 21/11/11 and my card was issued on Tuesday 14/2/12. I phoned a few times so maybe keep trying that approach.
Hope this helps.

loconnor1001

mbuble wrote: »

Hi Little Miss,

Are you a new applicant or a renewal? If a renewal then they are now apparently allowing applicants to use their expired medical card numbers:

http://www.herald.ie/lifestyle/health-beauty/families-can-use-outofdate-medical-cards-3016193.html sorry don't know how to embed this.

I would advise emailing your local TD immediately.

Good luck:)

Thanks for posting that. I was starting to get worried, mine is up at the end of the month, posted in the renewal ages ago and never heard back. On quite a few scrips. Glad they sorted that part out.

Little Miss!

Thanks so much everyone for the replies. I can't believe it but I got an email from the hse this morning, so fingers crossed this will get sorted soon. I'll keep ye all posted.

Thanks again for all the help

loconnor1001

They must be on the ball I got mine in the post today.

sambora

Do they still insist on 6 month bank statements??

loconnor1001

I think that's usually the standard. I didn't need any when I renewed. If you don't have 6 months, I would just give them what you do have.

sambora

Ok. thanks