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Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 219. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate additional funding in respect of Ireland's tobacco control budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51490/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 220. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set aside funding to undertake a Healthy Ireland Study to ascertain levels of hypertension awareness, treatment and control in the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51493/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 221. To ask the Minister for Health to give due consideration to conducting cardiovascular disease screening and management within the pharmacy setting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51494/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 222. To ask the Minister for Health to examine action that can be taken to highlight the importance of physical movement in the workplace environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51498/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 223. To ask the Minister for Health to set out a revised national food pyramid, designed to promote both human and planetary health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51499/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses very much for the presentation. I will start with some figures provided by the Secretary General of the Department of Health the previous time he appeared before the committee. He said there had been a 36% increase in hospital staff in recent years but that the number of patients going through hospitals had only increased by between 10% and 20% - the figure varies from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: There is a big difference between a 36% increase and a 10% increase.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: I will move on to efficiencies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: I was contacted by a consultant, not one from the south and south-west area, who only performs operations on a half day per week basis. The consultant's operating time is after lunch once per week. The consultant tries to do three operations but has been advised by staff that, if a patient is not in theatre by 4 p.m., the patient will not be allowed in. Surely there is a need for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: As a result of raising a certain issue, I received an email from a nurse in a particular hospital – again, not in the South/South West Hospital Group area – who complained that, on Sundays and bank holidays, there were three nurse managers in the hospital while there were other days of the week when there was none. I raised the issue because someone who had worked in CUH but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: How can there be disputes? Would a set number not be far more adequate from everyone’s point of view? It would be better for staff members if the proportion of senior people on duty was the same every day, as that would provide the maximum level of assistance to the junior staff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: Maternity services are not a five-day-per-week service. Babies do not only arrive between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday. Maternity services have the same ratio regardless of what day of the week it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: What are we doing about it? Set numbers are already in place in the maternity services. In the 19 maternity hospitals across the country, there is a set number of staff every day of the week because maternity services are seven-day-per-week services. Why can we not introduce set numbers in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: Regarding the health service generally, does Mr. Gloster not believe to some extent that some of the processes have become box-ticking exercises and are not necessarily hands on in trying to get more efficiency?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: I wish to raise two further issues. I believe St. Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin rolled out a team that would visit nursing homes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: -----to ensure people could be looked after there. Has that been rolled out across the country yet? At what stage is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: It makes the HSE a large saving-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: -----by having a team that can assess someone in a nursing home, with that person staying in the nursing home instead of being brought to an accident and emergency unit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: Regarding transfers from nursing homes, there was a sad inquest in Cork recently into someone in a nursing home who had swallowed false teeth, was admitted to hospital, was there for three days and was not examined until the third or fourth day, by which point the person had developed an infection. That person was transferred back to the nursing home to die. If the person had not been...