Practice Managers Manual - Irish Health Repository

Practice Support Subsidies – Patient Weighting.
Practice Support Subsidy Rates as of the 1st June 2007:
The payment of a subsidy towards the cost of employing a practice nurse and/or a practice secretary is provided
for in DOH circular 5/89.
Payment is made to participating doctors with a panel size of at least 100 patients and payment will increase in
bands of 100 with a maximum payment applicable at a panel size of 1,200. The subsidy rate applies to those
staff employed on a full time basis and for staff not employed on a full time basis payment is made on a prorata
basis.
GP’s in partnerships or group practices may aggregate their panels when making an application for a subsidy.
However in no circumstances shall a partnership or group practice qualify for a subsidy in respect of more than
one practice secretary/practice manager and/or practice nurse per contracting doctor in the practice. A G.P
can be paid a subsidy in respect of both a practice secretary and a practice nurse where the same person carries
out both duties. However in such cases the amount of the subsidy payable will be appropriate to the hours
worked.
Practice managers can be employed by group practices by using unused practice nurse allowance but there must
be a nurse already employed by the group practice.
Secretary:
Fee Category Description Fee Rate
Secretarial Subsidy 1yrs Experience €22,694.31
Secretarial Subsidy 2yrs Experience €24,585.51
Secretarial Subsidy 3yrs+ Experience €26,476.69
Practice Nurse:
Fee Category Description Fee Rate
Nursing Subsidy 1yrs Experience €34,041.47
Nursing Subsidy 2yrs Experience €35,932.65
Nursing Subsidy 3yrs Experience €37,823.85
Nursing Subsidy 4yrs+ Experience €41,606.24
Practice Manager
Fee Category Description Fee Rate
Practice Manager Subsidy €34,041.46
Under the terms of the July 2001 Over 70’s agreement, all GMS patients over 70 attract a weighting of 3:1 for
the purposes of calculating panel size for Practice Nurse/and or Secretary allowances.
You can obtain PSN1 Forms form the Primary Care Unit and theses forms must be returned
to the Primary Care Unit for processing:
Primary Care Unit,
Health Service Executive – South Western Area,
2 nd Floor Block E,
Westland Park,
Nangor Road,
Dublin 12. Tel: 01 4609667 Fax: 01 4609697
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