{"id":16805,"date":"2025-09-12T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/16805\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:55:07","slug":"minister-urges-cork-people-to-check-their-eligibility-for-a-gp-visit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/16805\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister urges Cork people to check their eligibility for a GP visit card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Almost 100,000 people in Cork have a GP visit card, with all families across the city and county encouraged to check their eligibility for the scheme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">As of August 1, there were more than 750,000 registered GP visit card holders nationwide, all of which are eligible to visit their GP free of charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Fine Gael Cork North Central TD Colm Burke said this initiative is \u201cfantastic to see and shows how [the government] is committed to alleviating the financial burden associated with healthcare costs in Cork\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cThe GP visit card scheme is open to a broad range of applicants\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cFor most, eligibility is based on income thresholds and family circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cChildren under eight years of age and those aged 70 years old or more are automatically eligible for a card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cMany people are not aware that they may qualify, and the minister for health urges everyone to review the criteria,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cI would urge all Cork residents to consider applying now as it could provide annual savings of \u20ac600 for a family of four.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">To qualify for a GP visit card, a range of criteria must be assessed including your income, your marital status and household expenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">For more information on the criteria for the scheme, or to apply for theGP visit card, visit:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.hse.ie\/services\/schemes-allowances\/gp-visit-cards\/gp-visit-cards\/\">https:\/\/www2.hse.ie\/services\/schemes-allowances\/gp-visit-cards\/gp-visit-cards.<\/a>\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 100,000 people in Cork have a GP visit card, with all families across the city and county&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[15607,79,103,397,396,61,60,10452],"class_list":{"0":"post-16805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-cork-health","9":"tag-cork-news","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-keeping-cork-healthy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}