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

Bernard Allen: Question 271: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to review the ongoing pharmacological training received by doctors in view of two separate studies which found that older patients were receiving inappropriate medications. [11476/08]

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 272: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the progress to date of the implementation of the recommendations made by the Emergency Department Task Force Report to set a date for the introduction of a maximum six hour wait time on arrival to admission or discharge. [11477/08]

Written Answers — Irish Blood Transfusion Service: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the situation regarding the provision of a modern centre for the Irish Blood Transfusion Service at Cork as promised almost eight years ago. [11478/08]

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

Bernard Allen: Question 274: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on recent comments by a person (details supplied) that more than 1,000 people die or acquire significant disability every year as a result of stroke because they do not get access to advanced clot busting therapy. [11479/08]

Written Answers — HIV Infection: HIV Infection (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 302: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will make a statement on the increase in newly diagnosed HIV cases; and if there is a need for the urgent development of a national sexual health strategy as recommended by a group (details supplied). [11554/08]

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 331: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will carry out an audit of automatic external defibrillators in the community and identify areas where access to those life saving devices is limited or non-existent. [11726/08]

Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (2 Apr 2008)

Bernard Allen: Question 332: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps she proposes to take to ensure that all organisations under the control of her Department have developed proper data protection plans. [11727/08]

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]