Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 8 February 2023
436. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the services in place for medical card holders and GPs with GMS lists who are seeking to provide vasectomies; if appropriate training is in place for GPs wishing to provide such a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5964/23]
View answerThe development of a standard contract for the provision of vasectomy services is a component of the HSE streamlining and coordination agenda in line with the 2019 Agreement between the Department of Health, the HSE, and the IMO on Contractual Reform and Service Development. Relevant training and standards will be addressed within that process. Pending the development of the standard contract, as an interim measure local health areas can utilise the HSE’s National Service Arrangement documentation with schedules particularised to the service in question, thereby bringing to bear some degree of standardisation in approach and moving in a meaningful way towards compliance with HSE’s governance framework for service arrangements with external service providers.
