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Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person referred to by the Deputy resides in County Kilkenny, my Department has asked the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person referred to by the Deputy resides in County Kilkenny, my Department has asked the chief officer for the executive's...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The number of persons in possession of a medical card in each county for April 2005 is set out in the following table: County No. of people covered by medical cards Dublin 273,291 Kildare 36,594 Wicklow 27,593 Laois 16,927 Longford 12,429 Offaly 19,087 Westmeath 21,274 Clare 30,862 Limerick 48,907 Tipperary NR 19,047 Cavan 18,544 Louth 34,593 Meath...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 156 and 157 together. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, established on 1 January 2005, to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for progressing the bulk of the health capital programme in 2005 and in future years. My Department has retained...

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: According to the integrated management returns, IMRs, which are supplied by acute hospitals on a monthly basis, there were 1,240,241, provisional, attendances at accident and emergency departments in 2004. The 2004 figure represents a 2.4% increase on the 2003 figure of 1,211,071.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of midwifery services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer of the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of acute hospital services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the director of the...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: Figures contained in the 2003 annual report of the general medical services payments board, the latest published report, indicate the number of general practitioners holding general medical services, GMS, and other contracts in respect of providing services under the primary childhood immunisation scheme, the Health (Amendment) Act 1996, Heartwatch and the methadone treatment scheme was...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 165 and 166 together. Where an individual requires specific treatment which is necessary and which cannot be provided in Ireland, the Health Service Executive, HSE, may refer the person to another member state for treatment. Under EU regulations, the executive issues a form E112 to the person being referred to establish his or her entitlement to such treatment...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: A special Cabinet sub-committee comprising the Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, the Attorney General, Mr. Brady, and myself has been established to consider the issue of repayment in light of the Supreme Court judgment. Full details of a repayment scheme will be announced as soon as possible and it is the intention to make repayments as automatic as...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of health services in County Kildare. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Hospitals Building Programme. (11 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I recently visited Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin. I met the committee of management and viewed some of the facilities there, which are clearly in need of investment. The infrastructure does not meet current standards for a paediatric hospital facility and the available facilities do not satisfactorily accommodate the range and extent of current clinical and associated...

Hospitals Building Programme. (11 May 2005)

Mary Harney: There is considerable merit in Deputy Twomey's proposal. We must have more routine services for children spread throughout the country within easy reach of families. On my visit to Cork on Monday to open the new accident and emergency department at Cork University Hospital, I saw that the hospital has a separate child-friendly accident and emergency facility. However, Deputy Twomey's...

Hospitals Building Programme. (11 May 2005)

Mary Harney: There is a clear need for an MRI scanner to replace the current outdated machinery at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children. It is intended to provide for that in the capital programme, which I will announce shortly.

Accident and Emergency Services. (11 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I have already welcomed the recent report of the Health and Safety Authority. It adds further impetus to our drive to improve the delivery of accident and emergency services. The authority's report arises from its inspection of 11 accident and emergency departments and its analysis of risk assessments carried out in all hospitals. This is the first nationally co-ordinated analysis of all...

Accident and Emergency Services. (11 May 2005)

Mary Harney: Safety in accident and emergency departments is a matter for the individual hospitals. I do not intend to micro-manage each hospital as they have their own management teams. Hospitals must examine their own circumstances and put in place the best management system taking into account all the risks. This will increase safety. I share a view with others, including accident and emergency...

Accident and Emergency Services. (11 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's point is fair. Clearly, issues exist with the volume of people who present if there is no access to general practitioner services or any provision of patient appointments. They often end up on hospital beds awaiting tests. However, hospitals can take many actions, such as through their discharge policies. I have cited the respiratory physician at James Connolly Hospital, Dr....

Accident and Emergency Services. (11 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I understand the Mater Hospital has made this decision. I met with the managers of the Dublin teaching hospitals a couple of weeks ago and put this issue to them. They were to consult on it and most felt that, before the Health and Safety Authority's report, it was probably safer on balance from a patients' safety point of view and a health perspective to put an extra bed on a ward from time...