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- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Overtime expenditure for the public health service in 2009 was approximately â¬310 million. Overtime expenditure in September 2010 (latest data) is approximately â¬23 million and cumulative year to date is approximately â¬211 million compared to â¬234 million to September 2009. If overtime to end year was maintained at September levels, total expenditure for 2010 would be approximately...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is currently being collated and will be forwarded as soon as it is available.
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 24, 60 and 63 together. On 1 November 2010 I announced that the Government has decided to approve a voluntary early retirement scheme and a voluntary redundancy scheme for certain categories of staff in the public health service. The purpose of the schemes is to achieve a permanent reduction in the numbers employed in the public health sector from 2011 onwards...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Since 2005 there has been a 34% national increase in the numbers of consultant radiologists, from 183 to 245. Ireland now has a ratio of 1 consultant radiologist per 17,959 population, which is similar to the UK at 1 per 18,040 per population. There are currently 5.54 adult consultant radiologists and 2 paediatric consultant radiologists at Tallaght Hospital. An additional 2 locum...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 26 and 46 together. The new National Paediatric Hospital is a priority for the Government. The capital spending on it will be protected over the full lifetime of the project. The total estimated cost of the development, including the Ambulatory and Urgent Care Centre at Tallaght, is â¬650 million. This is â¬100m less than a previous estimate because of the...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive's capital plan currently covers the five year period 2010 - 2014. The Executive has published on its website details of the projects, including Kenmare, which it intends to deliver within this plan. The HSE is in receipt of the design/build tenders for the Kenmare Community Nursing Unit. The tenders have been evaluated and the preferred bidder has been...
- Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: There are 1,305 adults and 69 children waiting for hearing aids following assessment. The average waiting time for adults is currently 3 to 4 months and the average waiting time for children is approximately 6 weeks. Hearing aids that are provided through HSE services to medical card holders are purchased via a central contract. The contracted cost of a hearing aid can range from â¬71 to...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I have met with the HSE and have been briefed on ongoing work in relation to its national survey of X-Rays. The HSE has advised me that they intend to publish their findings when concluded and this is expected in the next few weeks. Approximately seven and a half million X-rays have been reviewed to date as part of the audit.
- Written Answers — Vaccination Trials: Vaccination Trials (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Vaccine trials carried out in children's homes were the subject of media reports and questions to Ministers during the 1990s. In view of the is, the then Chief Medical Officer was asked to carry out a review of the information available in the Department on the issue. The "Report on 3 Clinical Trials involving babies and children in institutional settings 1960/61, 1970 and 1973" (the Kiely...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I understand from the HSE that admitted patients awaiting allocation of an inpatient bed in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda (Drogheda) and Cavan General Hospital are not discharged home while they await a transfer to a bed. The discharge of a patient from hospital is a clinical decision which is made by a Consultant or their medical team. The clinical condition and the age of patients...
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The Report of the Review of Radiology Reporting and the Management of GP referral letters at Tallaght Hospital was commissioned by the HSE. It was undertaken by Dr Maurice Hayes and launched and published by the HSE on 4th November 2010. A copy of the Report is available on the HSE website. When the accumulation of the backlog of X-rays in Tallaght hospital became apparent the HSE took...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: At the end of October 2010, there were 430.70 whole time equivalents (WTE) employed in my Department. In addition, a further 46.65 WTEs were employed across a number of offices including the Adoption Board, the Office of the Ombudsman for Children, the Disability Appeals Office and the Health Repayment Scheme Appeals Office. This level of employment represents an overall decrease of 27% since...
- Written Answers — Health Insurance: Health Insurance (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Charges are levied for private patients availing of private and semi-private accommodation in public hospitals. In most, but not all, cases these charges are paid by private health insurance companies on behalf of their members. At the end of 2009 some â¬92.5 million in such charges was due to the HSE, and a further â¬82.6 million owed to the voluntary hospitals. Charges due include those...
- Written Answers — Medicine Pricing: Medicine Pricing (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 38 and 49 together. The Government has decided to introduce a system of reference pricing combined with generic substitution of medicines. This will promote price competition and deliver ongoing savings for both the State and for patients. In June, I launched a report which sets out a proposed model for the operation of generic substitution and reference...
- Written Answers — General Medical Service: General Medical Service (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: General Practitioner (GP) out-of-hours co-operatives are an essential part of our primary care services and help to ensure that, to the greatest extent possible, care needs are met in the primary care setting. While there is no obligation on GPs to participate in co-operatives, GPs contracted under the General Medical Services Scheme must make suitable arrangements to enable contact to be...
- Written Answers — Hospital Boards: Hospital Boards (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The Charter for the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children's Hospital provides for a Board with 23 members. Six members may be nominated by the Adelaide Hospital Society, six may be nominated by the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, six members may be nominated by the Meath Foundation, three members may be nominated by the National Children's Hospital,...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin is the largest tertiary paediatric hospital in the State treating the type of complex cases associated with incidents of drug interactions and allergic reactions. The increasing complexity of cases, allied with the expanding spectrum of therapies for diverse diseases, has highlighted the need to strengthen the level of paediatric immunology services...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The Quality and Clinical Care Directorate of the Health Service Executive has established a number of disease specific programmes. These include Asthma, COPD, Heart Failure, Stroke and Diabetes. The approach to these chronic diseases will be to improve quality and access in a cost effective manner. Improving access will involve mandating Primary Care direct access to diagnostics rather...
- Written Answers — Croke Park Agreement: Croke Park Agreement (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 48 and 78 together. The Public Service Agreement 2010-2014 (the "Croke Park Agreement") provides a framework for public service management and staff to work together to deliver an ongoing reduction in the cost of delivery of public services, while maintaining and improving the quality of services delivered to the public, in return for commitments on pay and...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Question Nos. 50 and 55 together. The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) is responsible for the collation and reporting of national hospital waiting list data. Patients are placed on the national list only after they have been waiting three months, because many people receive their treatment within three months and, in some cases, with little or no waiting. It is not...