GMS panel definition
Examples of GMS panel in a sentence
Example 1 4 doctor group practice Each doctor in this practice has a weighted GMS panel of over 500 patients.
For the vast majority of individuals who are approved for either a Medical Card or DVC their choice of doctor is accommodated and they therefore are registered on the GMS panel of their doctor of choice.
In 2022 out of a total of circa 348,000 individuals who were approved for either a DVC or medical Card some 3,927 (i.e. 1.1%) of these new applicants were unable to get placed on to the GMS panel of their doctor of choice.
The Claimable Subsidy Amount will be the Subsidy Ceiling Amount pro-rated to take account of the GP’s GMS panel Size (for these purposes the GMS panel size will be comprised of medical card, DVC and Child patients aged 0-7 years (inclusive) in accordance with current provisions.
It is not the HSE’s intention to utilise the assignment provision as the default mechanism for assigning patients qualifying for Doctor Only Visit Cards under the terms of this Agreement, to the GMS panel of any participating GP, where such patients were not formerly registered with the participating GP in question.
For the purposes of calculating a GMS GP’s reckonable panel size, regard will be had to the double weighting that applies to each GMS patient aged 70 years and over registered on the GP’s GMS panel.
Those in receipt of the RPSF (and those GPs who continue to receive the former RPA on a red circled basis) and whose weighted GMS panel size is less than 1,200 will be treated the same as those GMS GPs whose weighted panel size is 1,200 or more for the purposes of calculating practice supports, contributions towards locum expenses for leave and medical indemnity rebate.
To include situations where, subject to HSE prior approval, a vacant GMS panel is taken over by surviving partner(s) in a registered partnership.