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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (28 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. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (28 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. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (28 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Practice nurses are not contracted with the HSE to work under the General Practitioner (GP) Chronic Disease Management (CDM) programme. GPs are private practitioners and as such, privately employ practice staff as they see fit and as suitable to the particular needs of their practice. Under the GMS scheme, GPs are paid a subsidy towards the cost of employing a practice nurse and/or a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (28 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As provided for under the 2019 GP Agreement, the General Practitioner (GP) Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Programme commenced in 2020 and has been rolled out on a phased basis to adult GMS (Medical Card and GP Visit Card) patients from 2020 to 2023. The specified chronic conditions included in the Programme are Type 2 Diabetes; Asthma; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (28 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: Dental Services (28 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: Primary Care Centres (28 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday 6th October. As a consequence of this industrial action,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: In the public health sector, a temporary Special Scheme has been in place since July 2022 to provide special leave with pay for eligible staff in respect of Long Covid. This Special Scheme has been extended a number of times, however it will conclude as planned on 31st March 2024 and no further extensions will be granted. Employees impacted by the conclusion of the Special Scheme will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 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. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday, 6 October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (28 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: Primary Care Centres (28 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: Dental Services (28 Feb 2024)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (28 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE recently ended the industrial action which commenced on 6 October 2023. As a consequence, members in these grades were not engaging with political forums...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (28 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 194 and 195 together. As this is an operational matter for the Health Service Executive, the HSE has been asked to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Thank you deputy for your question. You reference 'technology' in your question, which is a very board term in healthcare, that can include medicines, diagnostics and genomics etc. . In my answer, I have taken your question to mean a focus on the ICT aspects of technology. First of all, its important to recognise where there is strong utilisation of ICT and where we are well advanced in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I am aware of efforts by a small number of retailers to use the tobacco price list in a manner that resembles an advertisement. The Deputy previously raised this issue during the passage of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023. Price lists are provided for in section 43(5) of the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002 and are prescribed in the Public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: There has been an unprecedented level of investment by this Government in the health service workforce in recent years. There has been consistent growth in the workforce each year since 2020, with the growth in the number of staff recruited in 2023 being the highest since the foundation of the HSE. There are 26,617 more staff working in our health service than there were at the beginning of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for this question, and I acknowledge his long-standing engagement on the potential future use of Crooksling Nursing Home for community purposes. The Deputy and I have visited Crooksling and have had many conversations on the topic. I can confirm that Crooksling is under the ownership of the HSE. A HSE review of Crooksling Nursing Home was undertaken which determined...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I wish to acknowledge the commitment of the National Ambulance Service in delivering essential pathways to support access to care for patients in County Roscommon and across the country. The Government is investing over €227m in the NAS this year, an increase of €58m over the 2019 allocation. This investment has helped raise NAS staffing to 2,338 WTEs at end January 2024, a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The HSE's Incident Management Framework is applied to managing and reviewing incidents. The Framework’s focus is on understanding how and why an incident occurred. This approach to incident management is cognisant of the needs of those affected. It also supports services to learn and improve safety. The Framework describes a Category 1 incident as a clinical and non-clinical...