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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 834. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise which State body, if any. monitors the residential service providers to ensure if they are implementing the family forum guidelines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51913/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 850. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE intends to downgrade the services in Bantry Hospital centre for mental healthcare and recovery from an 18-bed unit to 12 beds; if resources have been made available to rectify the situation; his views on whether this will have a detrimental impact on the community and the ability in future for the unit to provide acute care; the locations in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 202. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 690 of 4 October 2022, if he will provide rates provided to each CHO; if procedures can be outlined that qualify for access to the fund; and if there are an operational guidelines/protocol in place for the PCERS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52063/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Several times over the past couple of months I have had to raise with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health the issue of the pandemic bonus payment. It has still not been paid to many front-line healthcare workers. Many workers who work in nursing homes, some of the carers of whom we spoke earlier who are not HSE staff and staff in section 39 organisations that provide services to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: When I asked Dr. Lambert if he believed the current model of care was fit for purpose, he said: No, it is not. As I said, of the 1,000 patients that I have seen, I would say that probably 20 of them need pulmonary support in the short term, but 1,000 of them needed neurological support. I am not saying that there is not a need for cardiac and pulmonary physicians in some cases, I am...

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 75. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his strategy for addressing the collapse of general practice and primary care out-of-hours services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52298/22]

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: We have a crisis in general practice. We have had reports in recent days of GPs and trainees seeking to emigrate. They are seeking to leave this State because they do not feel they will have opportunities here. The Minister will be aware that while I support the extension of free GP care, some concerns have been expressed by representative bodies about the capacity. We know out-of-hours...

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Obviously, I welcome any additional funding that goes into general practice, but I have also engaged with the representative bodies in recent years, in particular in recent weeks and months since the Government's announcement. There are solutions. What GPs say to me is that we need to train more GPs and we need to increase the number of training places. I agree about practice nurses and...

Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Saying it and doing it are two different things. Unfortunately, right across the healthcare system we have not seen the ratcheting up of training places that we need. In Sinn Féin's alternative budget I set out what we would have done this year, namely, 1,500 additional graduate and undergraduate positions across all the fields of study and increased GP training. Having a workforce...

Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 77. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish a multiannual waiting list strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52299/22]

Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: The Minister recently stated, presumably in response to a journalist, that if there were 2 million people on waiting lists, Sinn Féin would not be happy, which is obviously a political charge. At this point, 1.3 million people are on hospital waiting lists. That does not make me happy; in fact, it makes me angry and frustrated because, like him, I deal with patients every day who have...

Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: Of course, I welcome any reduction in the length of time people are awaiting care and I acknowledge the slight drop in that this year, but it is not just about people who are being treated. According to my latest figures, 60,000 patients were taken off the waiting lists through a process of validation. I do not disagree with that - it needs to be done because the waiting lists have to be...

Priority Questions: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: University Hospital Waterford is one of the hospitals that has performed very well. I know that senior officials from the Department visited the hospital last week. There has not been a patient on a hospital trolley in 18 months, or maybe longer, in Waterford. We need to learn from best practice. The reality is, however, that many of the beds that were promised still have not been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 101. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the full roll-out of early intervention in psychosis services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52302/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 106. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for electronic health records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52303/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 121. To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to publish an action plan for implementation of the Disability Capacity Review recommendations relevant to the specialist services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 137. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the independent review into the radiation therapy profession following agreement at the Workplace Relations Commission last year between an organisation (details supplied) the HSE and the Department of Health; the timeline for completion of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52300/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 141. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for dental services for public patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52301/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 574. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on screening and diagnostic waiting lists for cancer-related appointments, by location and by gender in tabular form; the number as of 10 October 2010, 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52712/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Oct 2022)

David Cullinane: 575. To ask the Minister for Health the mean, median and maximum wait time on screening and diagnostic waiting lists for cancer-related appointments, by location and by gender in tabular form; the number as of 1 October 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52713/22]