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Medical Card Experts - This Way Please.

  • 15-04-2013 10:05am
    #1
    irishbrain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭


    Question: If somebody is registered for a medical card with a doctor but then moves to a different part of the country, do they have to pay the same fees as a private patient with the new doctor until such a point that the change of doctor process is complete?

    Or, is there an alternative?


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  • #2
    mrsbyrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    Ring medical cards 1890 252 919 ask them to send you a Change of Gp form. You have to take it to your new GP. If he agrees to take you he/she will sign it and stamp it and you complete the rest and return the form to medical cards in Finglas.


  • #3
    irishbrain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭irishbrain


    mrsbyrne wrote: »
    Ring medical cards 1890 252 919 ask them to send you a Change of Gp form. You have to take it to your new GP. If he agrees to take you he/she will sign it and stamp it and you complete the rest and return the form to medical cards in Finglas.

    Thanks for your reply. But unfortunately it doesn't answer my question.

    A relative of mine needs to visit the doctor as soon as possible. He doesn't have the money to go private and is too far from his current doctor. Will he need to borrow the money to visit a GP or can he use his medical card with the new doctor somehow? Thanks.


  • #4
    mrsbyrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭mrsbyrne


    No they wont have to pay. The new GP will accept the medical card for up to 3 months.


  • #5
    irishbrain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭irishbrain


    mrsbyrne wrote: »
    No they wont have to pay. The new GP will accept the medical card for up to 3 months.

    Thank you.


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