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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 619 and 685 together. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 623, 624 and 626 together. The HSE's National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) advises that the number of electronic GP referrals sent to each of the rapid access clinics for 2020-2023 by month is given as follows:
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I am advised that the HSE’s National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) does not collect specific data on cancer stage and palliative care for patients with cancer. Data on the number of patients with cancer receiving specialist palliative care is available since 2021 and is represented in the below table. There is no breakdown available on the stage of the cancer for these patients and,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 633 and 734 together. The Long-Term Illness (LTI) Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975, prescribing 16 illnesses covered by the Scheme. These are: acute leukaemia; mental handicap; cerebral palsy; mental illness (in a person under 16); cystic fibrosis; multiple sclerosis;...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly. I would also like to remind the Deputy that it is against Department policy to comment on individual cases.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to possess". Persons who hold a medical card or a GP visit card are not subject to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The funding and delivery of capital projects is subject to the successful completion of the various approval stages, in line with the new lifecycle approach of the Public Spending Code (PSC), which was updated in 2019. The PSC is designed to ensure that investment decisions are underpinned by a clear policy rationale, and that costs are well understood. These are defined processes which...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 638, 679, 688 and 723 together. I recognise the significant role community pharmacists play in the delivery of patient care and acknowledge the potential for this role to be developed further in the context of healthcare service reform. In that regard, various approaches to extending the scope of practice of community pharmacists are being progressed...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Diabetes is a complex condition that can have a profound impact on the quality of life of people living with the condition. Management of the condition is required across the entire spectrum of healthcare delivery, through general practice, community specialist care and hospital inpatient specialist care. In September 2019 Sláintecare Integration funding was allocated to the HSE to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Jun 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to...