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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: 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. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: 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. The National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: The development of primary care remains central to the Government’s objective to deliver a high-quality, integrated and cost-effective health care system. The policy is to enable people to easily access a broad spectrum of services in the community, through their local Primary Care Team. The development of Primary Care Centres, through a combination of public and private investment,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 945 and 946 together. These are matters which I intend to consider in the context of the implementation of the health commitments in the Programme for Partnership Government and having regard to the funding available to facilitate such measures. Detailed financial analysis will be required in order to establish as accurately as possible the expected costs to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: The Home Help service is provided to assist older people to live independently in their own homes. The service is focused primarily on providing a range of personal care supports, following an individual assessment of needs. The HSE also provides enhanced home care services through the Home Care Packages (HCP) scheme for persons whose needs cannot be met by the mainstream Home Help service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: Following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by the Health Service Executive, the Department of Health and the Irish Medical Organisation in February 2015, the parties commenced talks on a new GP contract. A priority of these discussions is the inclusion of chronic disease management for patients. As a first step in this process, agreement was reached on the introduction of a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Training (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: I understand that the Deputy is referring to medical education tutors for GP training. As the training of GPs is currently a matter for the Health Service Executive, the question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: I understand that the Clinical Advisory Group is working on the development of a framework for assessment and measurement of the burden of disease and appropriate operational guidelines for the medical card scheme. I look forward to the Group's report to the Director General of the HSE on the matter. I recognise the importance of having a medical card scheme that is more sensitive to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: The HSE National Service Plan provides for additional funding of €2.5 million for the addition of meningitis B and rotavirus, along with associated changes, to the childhood immunisation programmes. Requirements for 2017 and subsequent years will be finalised as part of the HSE service planning process.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: The HSE National Service Plan 2016 provides €1.5 million towards the cost of extending the BreastCheck screening programme to women aged 65 to 69 years. The BreastCheck extension is being implemented on a phased basis up to 2021. When fully rolled out the annual cost of the age extension is likely to be in the region of €5 million. The extension will increase the eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: Funding for mental health services will increase this year, no matter what developments take place during 2016. Funding for mental health in 2016 will increase from the 2015 outturn of €785 million, to a projected budget of €826 million in the 2016 NSP, an increase of €41 million or 5.2% which includes the €35 million ring fenced for mental health. In 2016, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: 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. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 May 2016)

Simon Harris: 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. The National...

Adjournment Debate: Hospital Services (18 May 2016)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Chambers for the opportunity to address the House on this important issue and for bringing these matters to my attention. I am very conscious of the impact that long wait times in emergency departments can have on patients and their families. Emergency department overcrowding is not just a problem for emergency departments to resolve. There has to be a system-wide health...

Adjournment Debate: Home Help Service Provision (18 May 2016)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy Daly for raising this important issue and for giving me the opportunity to respond to some of the points he has raised in regard to the importance of home help provision in our community. I begin by agreeing with the point he makes that the role of the Minister for Health is not just to be a Minister for acute hospitals but to be a Minister who examines the continuum of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 May 2016)

Simon Harris: The LGBT Safe and Supportive Schools Project model, jointly implemented by BeLonG To and HSE, was successfully piloted in two schools in Donegal during the 2013/2014 year and as a result of this, the model has now been launched nationally. LGBT individuals are one of the priority groups identified in Connecting for Life,Ireland’s national strategy to reduce suicide, as being at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 May 2016)

Simon Harris: 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. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Expenditure (18 May 2016)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 May 2016)

Simon Harris: The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2014, has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has...