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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 333: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she is proposing to expand the prenatal screening process and implement population based genetic testing as proposed by the chair of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. [11728/08]

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 334: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether there are sufficient stockpiles of anti-virals here to protect against the imminent arrival of bird flu particularly in view of a recent statement (details supplied) which warned that waiting until an outbreak occurs to acquire anti-virals is ill-advised as it would be impossible to stockpile after an outbreak...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 340: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent findings by an organisation (details supplied) that diagnoses of cancer and asthma, motor neurone diseases and other conditions should be treated in the same way as diagnosis of infectious diseases with full backgrounds of patients being placed on the national register. [11764/08]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 341: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of involuntary admission orders made in 2005, 2006, 2007 and to date in 2008; and the number in each year that were revoked. [11765/08]

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the health service has not sufficiently implemented the recommendations of the Government working group and the provision of child and adolescent psychiatric services. [11766/08]

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 343: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to ensure non-consultant hospital doctors' working hours are reduced and brought in line with working time legislation. [11767/08]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 344: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the current and rapidly worsening national general practitioner manpower shortage. [11768/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 345: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason she has refused to provide direct funding for clinical trials into muscular dystrophy treatment in the UK that could involve Irish patients. [11769/08]

Written Answers — Alcohol Advisory Group: Alcohol Advisory Group (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 346: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent submission by an organisation (details supplied) to the Government alcohol advisory group that the legal limit for the purchase of alcohol products be increased to 21 years. [11771/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 347: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent comments by the chief executive of the Irish Medical Organisation that the health services here will take many years to recover lost ground as a result of short-sighted cutbacks imposed by the Health Service Executive in the latter half of 2007. [11772/08]

Written Answers — Diabetes Strategy: Diabetes Strategy (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason she and the Health Service Executive have not responded to a document that the Expert Advisory Group on Diabetes submitted for consideration before the end of 2007. [11784/08]

Written Answers — Patient Information Website: Patient Information Website (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 351: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation whereby the Irish Medical Organisation's independent patient information website has been taken completely off-line and its future is in doubt as a result of a disagreement with her Department over funding. [11785/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 352: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps taken in the two years since the Task Force on Sudden Cardiac Death recommended an audit of all new cardiovascular services. [11786/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 353: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to a recent study (details supplied) which showed that only in about 10% of cardiac cases is the defibrillator reaching the cardiac arrest victim within the five minutes standard time. [11787/08]

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 354: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a cardiac arrest registry in order that ambulance response times could be accurately recorded. [11788/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 355: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce acute medical admissions units in all of the acute hospitals nationally and the accident medical admissions unit model be introduced to improve outcomes rather than efficiency. [11789/08]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 356: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on a recent Health Service Executive report which states that it needs an additional 1,863 full-time equivalent health staff to fulfil the service targets outlined in its national health plan 2008; the action she will take in relation to this matter; and the projected cost of the target. [11790/08]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 357: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the recent Inhale report which stated that the reason Ireland had such a high level of respiratory disease was either genetic or possibly climate related, that health education was failing the socially deprived groups and that health prevention attempts had failed to reach these groups and had only...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 364: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate a situation whereby patients dealing with the National Treatment Purchase Fund are receiving treatment paid for by the fund at the same hospital from which their names had been taken from waiting lists; and her views on whether this practice is disrupting the core activities of such hospitals. [11827/08]

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 365: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will investigate a situation where the National Treatment Purchase Fund is in the process of engaging a public relations firm to improve its image; and her views on whether this is an acceptable way of spending taxpayers' money. [11828/08]