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- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: A system of unique health identifiers that allows for the accurate identification of individuals accessing health and personal social services and providers of such services is important in terms of enhancing and promoting patient safety and quality of care. Provision for the establishment of such a system will be included in the proposed Health Information Bill which is currently being...
- Written Answers — Health Forums: Health Forums (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Section 42 of the Health Act 2004 provides for the establishment of not more than four Regional Health Forums, the membership of which is composed of members nominated by city and county councils. The Regulations providing for the establishment of the Regional Health Forums - the Health Act 2004 (Regional Health Forums) Regulations 2005 - were made on 12 December 2005 and provided for the...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy regarding the number of social workers employed on a full-time basis in the Health Service Executive is set out in the table below: Numbers (WTE excld. career break) of social workers employed in the HSE only 31/12/2005 31/12/2006 31/12/2007 31/12/2008 Health Service Executive 1,661 1,742 1,814 1,799 Figures include the grade of social worker...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The Government has made clear that a critical part of its strategy to restore the public finances is to achieve sustainability in the cost of delivering public services relative to State revenues. To help achieve this goal, it will be necessary to restructure and reorganise the public service and to reduce public service numbers over the coming years. This requires that the moratorium on...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Question Nos. 57 and 180 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 — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive (HSE) has responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement. In that regard, it is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Pharmacy Services: Pharmacy Services (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Since 1st October 2010, medical card holders are required to pay a 50c charge for medicines and other prescription items supplied to them by community pharmacists. The charges are subject to a cap of â¬10 per month for each person or family. In 2008 only 2.1% of families with medical cards had 20 or more items prescribed to them per month. Should a person or family pay more than â¬10,...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The in-patient oncology unit at University Hospital Galway is comprised of 45 in-patient beds. Patients are triaged and assessed weekly and all admissions are based on clinical need in consultation with the treating clinicians. Early last week, the increased demand for beds was such that eleven patients' admissions to these in-patient beds were deferred. These patients have now been...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: At the heart of the Primary Care Strategy is the aim of developing services in the community to give people direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, home helps, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other health care professionals. The Strategy is also about the reorientation of existing resources to develop new ways for health and social...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The transformation programme for the North East region is designed to build a health system that is in line with the model of care emerging internationally. The implementation of this programme is continuing and Navan, Dundalk and Monaghan Hospitals continue to play an important and expanding role in the provision of health services in the North East region, with a particular focus on...
- Written Answers — Parliamentary Questions: Parliamentary Questions (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The operation of the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the HSE (PAD) allows for the centralised receipt, assignment and tracking of Parliamentary Questions within the HSE's extensive network of operations. More generally, PAD monitors overall performance in relation to the timely issue of replies and provides a central contact for all requests from Oireachtas members for information relating...
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The overall costs of the Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccination programme including the purchase of vaccines, associated clinical consumables, capital costs in increasing intensive care capacity and other related expenditure have been estimated at â¬52.6m. This does not include salary or other overhead costs which were met from within existing resources.
- Written Answers — National Maternity Hospital: National Maternity Hospital (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The KPMG report on maternity services in the Greater Dublin Area recommended that maternity and related services should transfer from the three existing maternity hospitals in Dublin to locations on adult acute hospital sites. It recommended that services at the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) at Holles Street should move to the St Vincent's University Hospital campus at Elm Park. It...
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I am a strong supporter of health research and believe it makes significant contributions not only to the achievement of health research goals but to broader social and economic ones. This has been acknowledged in the Renewed Programme for Government and in the Action Plan for Health Research. That Plan recognises the significant level of investment made by medical research charities in this...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: I recently met with the preferred bidders for the co-location hospital projects at Beaumont, Cork and Limerick (Beacon Medical Group) and St. James's Hospital (Synchrony) to receive an update from them on the progress they have made so far. I also met recently with the Chair and Chief Executive of the Voluntary Health Insurance Board on a number of matters. During the discussion I raised...
- Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), the regulatory body for pharmacy in Ireland, issued new guidance to pharmacists on the safe supply of non-prescription products containing codeine on the 1st of August 2010. All pharmacists and retail pharmacy businesses are required to comply with this guidance. Codeine is a controlled drug listed in the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Repayment Scheme: Nursing Home Repayment Scheme (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: Under the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006, a relevant person or a connected person as defined in the Act was entitled to apply for a repayment under the scheme. A relevant person is a person who was charged and paid recoverable health charges. A connected person includes the following: (a ) a person who has been nominated in writing by the relevant person (b ) the Registrar of Wards of...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Nov 2010)
Mary Harney: 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 security of employment for public servants. The...