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Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: There is a common list of reimbursable medicines for the general medical services and drug payment schemes. This list ensures equity between the schemes in relation to the range of medicines paid for by the State. The list is reviewed and amended monthly, as new products become available and deletions are notified. For an item to be included on the common list, it must comply with a published...

Written Answers — Health Services. : Health Services. (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, Comhairle na n-Ospidéal was dissolved on the day the Health Service Executive was established and the functions of comhairle have been transferred to the Health Service Executive. My Department has therefore requested the interim chief executive of the Health Service...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: It is my intention that the recommendations of the report of the Commission on Financial Management and Control Systems in the Health Service, or the Brennan report, relating to the treatment of patients in our public hospitals will be progressed in the context of the negotiation of a new consultant contract and I am anxious to get these negotiations under way as soon as possible. However, as...

Written Answers — Hospital Hygiene: Hospital Hygiene (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: Improving the standards of cleanliness in hospitals is a priority. One of the specific actions identified in the ten point plan to improve the delivery of accident and emergency services refers to the need to address this particular issue. Effective infection control measures, including environmental cleanliness and hand hygiene, are central to the control of hospital acquired infections, or...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: Capital funding for the health service is now largely provided through the Health Service Executive in line with the capital investment framework 2005-09. This amounts to €564 million in 2005. I am awaiting further clarification from the HSE of certain non-capital funding issues. The provision of the additional 19 beds at Wexford General Hospital will be considered in this context.

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: 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. The total capital provision for the health service, as announced earlier this year...

Written Answers — Departmental Publications: Departmental Publications (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The information requested is being collated by my Department and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 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. Services at Beaumont Hospital are provided under an arrangement with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Nursing Education: Nursing Education (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The issue raised by the Deputy is a matter for An Bord Altranais, the statutory body charged with the regulation of the nursing and midwifery professions, including the setting of requirements and standards relating to the education programmes for registration. Membership of the board is representative of all divisions of the register of nurses. I understand that the board decided at a recent...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (1 Jun 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 ambulance services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer of the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 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 services at the County Hospital, Roscommon. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 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 services at the Portiuncula Hospital, County Galway. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: Since the establishment of the Health Service Executive, the chief officers, that is, the former health board CEOs, in each of its administrative areas have continued to deal with parliamentary questions in accordance with the arrangements which previously operated under the health boards. This arrangement was calculated to avoid any erosion in the accountability, as regards the timeliness or...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (2 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The information requested is being collated by my Department and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (2 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The quarterly health service personnel return collects employment information solely on the basis of grade and employing agency and does not include any data in relation to vacancy levels as requested by the Deputy. Accordingly, my Department has requested the national director of human resources of the Health Service Executive to investigate the matter raised by the Deputy and respond to her...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (2 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: A contract notice was dispatched to the Official Journal of the European Communities, OJEC, on 6 May 2005 concerning the appointment of a design team for new breast screening centres in Cork and Galway. The contract will be awarded using the negotiated procedure. In accordance with EU procurement procedures, the time-limit for receipt of requests to participate in the procedure is 37 days —...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (2 Jun 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 in question resides in County Mayo, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's western area to...

Written Answers — Consultant Appointments: Consultant Appointments (2 Jun 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 recruitment of consultant staff. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer of the...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (2 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: A design brief was prepared some time ago by the South Eastern Health Board for a major redevelopment at St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny. This formed part of the board's overall proposals under the National Development Plan, NDP, 2000-2006, and was submitted to my Department. Given the various competing demands overall for capital priorities under the NDP, including the need to take account of...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: Arrangements for the outpatient pilot projects mentioned by the Deputy are being made by the national treatment purchase fund, NTPF. My Department, has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the NTPF to respond directly to the Deputy with regard to the information requested.