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Primary Care Reimbursement Service
Department/Agency
Key Information
Details of payments made under the schemes General Medical Services (GMS), Drugs Payment (DP), Long Term Illness(LTI), Dental Treatment Services (DTS), European Economic Area (EEA), High Tech Drugs (HTD), Primary ChildhoodImmunisation, Health (Amendment) Act 1996, Methadone Treatment, and Health Service Executive CommunityOphthalmic Services (HSE-COS); numbers of eligible persons (including dependants) by sex, age and county; costs ofmedicines by sex and age; costs of prescriptions; details of the 100 most commonly prescribed products; expenditureby major therapeutic classification; distribution of medicines and appliances by anatomical therapeutic chemicalclassification. The statistics are also classified by HSE area.
Links to web pages which contain:
------See "PCRS, Financial and Statistical Analyses" ------See "European health for all database" Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) administrative records.
All payments for services provided in the community by general practitioners, community pharmacies, dentists andoptometrists/ophthalmologists made by the Primary Care Reimbursement Service.
Frequency
Reference Period
Start Date
2005 (PCRS), 1998 (General Medical Services (Payments) Board) Timeliness
10 months after the end of the reference period Classification
> HSE area - Two classifications are used: (1) East Coast Area; South Western Area; Northern Area; Midland;
Mid-Western; North Eastern; North Western; South Eastern; Southern; Western; (2) Eastern Areas; Midland;
Mid-Western; North Eastern; North Western; South Eastern; Southern; Western.
> County - The 26 geographic counties, except that Tipperary NR and Tipperary SR are distinguished.
> Age - Under 5 years 5-11; 12-15; 16-24; 25-34; 35-44; 45-54; 55-64; 65-69; 70-74; 75+ years.
StatCentral.ie - The Portal to Ireland's Official Statistics > Drugs, medicines and appliances (broad) - Alimentary tract and metabolism; Blood and blood-forming
organs; Cardiovascular system; Dermatologicals; Genito-urinary system and sex hormones; Systemic
hormonal preparations; Anti-infectives for systemic use; Antineoplastic and immunomodulating agents;
Musculo-skeletal system; Nervous system; Antiparasitic products, insecticides and repellents; Respiratory
system; Sensory organs; Clinical nutritional products; Diagnostic products; Ostomy appliances; Urinary
appliances; Needles/syringes/lancets; Other therapeutic products; Dressings; Miscellaneous.
> Drugs, medicines and appliances (detailed) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) Anatomical
Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system.
> Distance from surgery - <3 miles; 3-5; 5-7; 7-10; 11+ miles.
> Special items of service - Excisions/cryotherapy/diathermy, skin lesions; Suturing, cuts and lacerations;
Hydroceles, draining of; Haemorrhages, dental/nasal; Veins, recognised treatment; ECG, tests and
interpretation; Diaphragm, instruction in the fitting of; Eye, removal of adherent foreign body; Ear/nose/throat,
removal of foreign body; Nebuliser, treatment in the case of acute asthmatic attack; Bladder, catheterization;
Case conference, convened by HSE; Diaphragm, advice and fitting of; IUCD, counselling and fitting of;
Pneumococcal, vaccination; Influenza, vaccination; Pneumococcal/influenza, vaccination; Hepatitis B,
vaccination.
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Keywords
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