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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (20 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Feb 2024)

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: Healthcare Policy (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Firstly, I want to acknowledge that waiting lists for scoliosis and spina bifida services are unacceptably long. I am acutely conscious of the burden that this places on patients and their families. I committed €19 million under the 2022 and 2023 Waiting List Action Plans to tackle these waiting lists. This investment has supported an increase in the number of spinal procedures...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 and 146 together. I fully share the Deputy’s wish to see doctors and other health professionals fleeing the war in Ukraine gaining registration with their respective regulators and taking employment here. Officials from my Department, the HSE and the health profession regulators have been actively working towards this for some time now....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GP recruitment is ongoing under the joint HSE and ICGP non-EU GP Training Programme. 112 non-EU GPs were recruited last year under the training programme with 75 having started in GP practice at year end. Detailed information on the programme, including information on the eligibility criteria for applicants, is available from the ICGP website. As per the eligibility criteria, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Dental Council of Ireland is the regulator for the dental profession in Ireland. The Council is responsible for establishing, maintaining and publishing a Register of Dentists and a Register of Dental Specialists and to provide for the registration and the retention of dentists names in these registers. As of the 16th of February 2024 13 Ukrainian dentists have received full...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Feb 2024)

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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: My Department has nominated the National Cancer Control Programme within the HSE to participate as the Irish lead on the JAPreventNCD given its focus on Cancer and other NCD prevention. Further information on the Project can be found here: ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/scree n/opportunities/projects-details/43332642/101128023/EU4H?pro...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy may be aware, following approval by Government on 13 December 2022, I was pleased to announce €9 million in additional supports for student nurses and midwives. €5.4m of this funding provides for an enhanced Travel and Subsistence Scheme for eligible students in publicly funded undergraduate nursing and midwifery courses while attending their supernumerary clinical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Feb 2024)

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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive (HSE) holds responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Work is ongoing to design a proposed model for a vaccine damage scheme and my officials are currently working through related policy matters. When the model is ready, it will then be considered at cabinet.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The introduction of a standardised national approach to electronic discharges would certainly improve the timeliness and quality of discharges from one care setting to another. Indeed, electronic discharges are already deployed at a number of our larger acute hospitals. The communication technology is already well established with discharge information being issued as a structured message via...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. General practitioners who hold a GMS contract are reimbursed for the services they provide to medical card and GP visit card holders on behalf of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. Most GPs hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Currently, there are 2,524 GPs contracted to provide services under the GMS Scheme and only 23 GMS vacancies as of the start of the year. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Practice staff, including practice nurses, are not employees of the HSE but are privately employed by general practitioners. As private practitioners GPs manage their own practices and may employ practice staff as they see fit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (21 Feb 2024)

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: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Feb 2024)

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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines work by preventing infections prior to exposure to the HPV virus. Thus, the vaccines are more effective at a younger age prior to exposure to the HPV virus. The HSE offers a single dose of HPV vaccine to all first-year boys and girls in secondary school as part of the routine HPV vaccination programme. A vaccine uptake of 90% in girls by the age of 15 is...