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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Government’s primary focus was to fulfil our EU Obligations in a robust and effective way, including operability by 1 July in context of EU compliance; and delivery of certificates to eligible members of the public in line with Government’s lifting of restrictions on non-essential travel since Monday, 19 July. To support the roll-out of Government policy, a helpline through...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Just like the paper version of the Digital COVID Certificate (DCC), the digital version of the DCC contains personal information such as name, date of birth and details about the vaccination received by the individual. Data is held in an encoded but unencrypted form. It is an open EU wide standard and there are numerous tools and applications freely available which enable decoding of this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: In September 2019 Sláintecare Integration funding was allocated to the HSE to design and procure a National Diabetes Registry demonstrator product and develop a full specification plan for a National Diabetes Registry. The project was paused as it was dependent on the input and expertise of key HSE staff who were redeployed onto urgent on-going COVID-19 work. This project...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: In 2012, the National Stroke Register (NSR), was first developed. In 2019, it came under the auspices of the National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) and evolved into the Irish National Audit of Stroke (INAS). The first INAS report (2019) Stroke which presents data and findings to the end of 2019 was published on 16th December 2020 by NOCA. It continues on from the NSR yearly reports, and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The management of heart valve disease is a specialists cardiac service. The National Review of Specialist Cardiac Services is a key enabler for future policy and its recommendations will inform the future provision of services. The National Review of Specialist Cardiac Services commenced in January 2018 with Professor Phillip Nolan as Chair of the Steering Group. This Review aims to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: In October 2015, the Diabetes cycle of care programme was introduced nationally by the HSE. Under this programme, adult GMS patients, those who hold a medical card or GP visit card, with a diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes are eligible to be managed as part of the programme by their GP. The 2019 GP Agreement introduced the chronic disease management (CDM) programme for GMS patients who have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Service Executive’s (HSE) IT systems suffered a major cyber-attack on Friday 14th May 2021. This led to disruption of regular COVID-19 data updates. In relation to test numbers and positivity rates, the cyber-attack did not lead to any pause in the HSE’s weekly updates. All HSE weekly ‘Covid-19 Testing and Contact Tracing Updates’, with data on test...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted in the last eighteen months as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic and more recently as a result of the ransomware attack. While significant progress was made in reducing waiting times from June 2020 onwards, the surge in Covid-19 cases in the first quarter of 2021 and the associated...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1022 and 1165 together. I wish to convey my sincere gratitude to health sector workers in relation to their continuing efforts in the delivery of health services during this very challenging pandemic period. The Department is supportive of efforts by all sides to seek a resolution of this matter. It would not be appropriate to comment any further given that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Over 3.3m Digital COVID Certificates have been issued via post and email from July 12th and remaining certificates are being processed for issue. Of course there are a small percentage of the overall number who have yet to receive their vaccination certificates and this relates to a number of factors e.g GPs who are uploading remaining data and also in cases where the quality of data is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: In 2016, the Herity Report concluded that the needs of the effective catchment population of University Hospital Waterford (UHW) could be accommodated from a single Cath lab and recommended that the operating hours of the existing Cath lab should be extended. The HSE has advised that discussions are still on-going to commence extended working days (8am-8pm) in the Cath Lab in University...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.