Results 441-460 of 788 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 743. To ask the Minister for Health the pre-operative risk assessments in place at Children's Health Ireland for children with connective tissue disorders (details supplied), particularly in terms of anaesthetic risk, vascular fragility, wound healing, and spinal stability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27465/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 744. To ask the Minister for Health if children with diagnosed or suspected connective tissue disorders are routinely referred to genetics, rheumatology, cardiology, or other relevant specialties before major spinal surgery at Children's Health Ireland; if this coordination is part of a formal care pathway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27466/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 745. To ask the Minister for Health the post-operative protocols in place at Children's Health Ireland for monitoring children with connective tissue disorders who undergo spinal fusion or growth rod procedures; if these differ from standard care pathways; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27467/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 746. To ask the Minister for Health if Children's Health Ireland has conducted any audit or review of surgical outcomes, complications, or readmissions among children with connective tissue disorders following spinal surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27468/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 747. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide copies of all policies, protocols, and standard operating procedures relating specifically to the management of connective tissue disorders in paediatric patients undergoing orthopaedic or spinal surgery at Children's Health Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27469/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that have been required to return to theatre due to post-operative infection following spinal fusion or growth rod procedures in Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street, CHI at Crumlin, and Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, in each of the past five years, in tabular form (details supplied); and the number of children that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 754. To ask the Minister for Health routinely tracks and review cases involving multiple re-operations due to infection following spinal fusion or growth rod procedures; if these cases are subject to morbidity and mortality review or internal audit; the lessons, if any, that have been identified from these cases and the changes that have been implemented across sites to reduce the risk of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 755. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish any available findings from internal or external reviews conducted at Children's Health Ireland or Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital in relation to post-operative spinal infections and surgical site complications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27477/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 756. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether parents of children undergoing spinal fusion or growth rod procedures at Children's Health Ireland are informed of the relevant post-operative infection rates, either site-specific or national, as part of the surgical consent process; if this information is not routinely disclosed, to explain how this complies with the principles set out...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 800. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug will be made available to patients for certain types of gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers under the HSE reimbursement scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27684/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 801. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to a recent poll into the attitudes of front-line ambulance staff towards the leadership of the National Ambulance Service (details supplied); if she has replied to correspondence from the representative organisation; the steps she will take in response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27685/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question 385 of 1 April 2025, if she will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if her department will consider providing additional special education classes in the area; if the National Council for Special Education has engaged with this school; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 389. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to open the remaining 49 beds in a health and addiction care facility (details supplied); the timeline she is working towards in ensuring that all 100 beds are made operational; the reason the funding required to operate at full capacity has not been provided to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27940/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 395. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 980 of 8th April 2025, her views on the United Kingdom’s decision to begin a targeted gonorrhoea vaccine programme (details supplied); if this vaccine will be reviewed by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee with a view to making a recommendation to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (28 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 396. To ask the Minister for Health if she has engaged with the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (MMUH) with respect of their plans for Temple Street Hospital following the opening of the new National Children’s Hospital; the services the MMUH intends to provide at Temple Street; if any private healthcare services will be provided on site; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if a contingent liability is in place for potential compensation claims related to an audit (details supplied); if so, the amount set aside; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28599/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 663. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the disparity that exists between the pay of diagnostic radiography tutors, when compared to colleagues in other allied health professions (details supplied); if she will take steps to address this discrepancy in pay scales for clinical tutors; if so, the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Inquiries (29 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 666. To ask the Minister for Health if Children’s Health Ireland made her aware of a 2021 internal investigation (details supplied); if she has been provided with a copy of the report and its findings; if not, if she has requested a copy; if she will commit to publishing this report when she receives it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28812/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Inquiries (29 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 667. To ask the Minister for Health if any disciplinary action has been taken against a consultant in Children’s Health Ireland (details supplied); if this case was referred to the Irish Medical Council; if so, the date at which it was referred; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28813/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Appointments to State Boards (29 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 668. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in appointing two members of the HSE Board to the Board of Children’s Health Ireland; the steps being taken to progress these appointments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28814/25]