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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: What we heard earlier, if I am comparing like with like - and specifically we were given an example of a CHO south area - is that in some areas not only is time involved not seven months, it is three and a half years. In Wicklow, which comes under another CHO area, the time involved is not seven months or anything close to it. I have had to intervene on numerous occasions to find...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: -----between what I am experiencing on the ground and what we just heard and the tone of what we are hearing now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Ms O'Neill also said, if I am not mistaken, that in most cases it is being met.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Just stage 1.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: If the time involved is meant to be seven months, what is it actually for the nine CHOs throughout the country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Would that be in order?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: How many?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Ms O'Neill is not, as I understand it, suggesting the assessment has been replaced and it seems to me to be a triage measure, so I will call it a "preassessment". I would hate this preassessment to become the statutory obligation because the Disability Act envisages the full assessment happening within six months. Can Ms O'Neill confirm the preassessment will not count as an assessment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Would the preassessment count as satisfying the six-month statutory obligation? Is it only a full assessment that has to be met under the Act?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: How is an overdue assessment defined?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: That is six months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Does Dr. Morgan have figures to translate that in terms of waiting times? For example, we were told of waiting times of two and a half or three and a half years in the south. Can Dr. Morgan translate the total number over six months into waiting times?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Contracts (28 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: 1. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the negotiation of a new general practitioner contract, the engagement he has had with an organisation (details supplied) in the negotiations and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28600/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Contracts (28 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Minister for Health will be aware, the GP sector is in crisis. GPs have faced repeated cuts, there is an almost complete breakdown in relationships between GPs and the HSE and there are massive recruitment and retention problems. According to some estimates, seven out of ten GP surgeries are no longer taking in new patients. One of the keys to rebuilding the sector is a new GP...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Contracts (28 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: While I accept that the Minister is speaking in good faith, I have read all the correspondence from his Department to the NAGP and none of it gives any dates whatsoever. I will refer to the timeline. On 13 March 2018, the NAGP wrote to the Minister seeking a meeting on the referendum on the eighth amendment. It was concerned about talks about a GP-led service when GPs were not being...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Practitioner Contracts (28 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: The Minister is right that the eighth amendment is a separate issue, but I was concerned that the NAGP was hearing Ministers talk about a GP-led service when it, as the representative of many of the GPs, has not been consulted. Similarly, the association wrote to the Minister about CervicalCheck pointing out that although the Minister was saying that GPs would play a big role in supporting...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (28 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: 20. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place to enable the sharing of best practice between hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28313/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (28 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: 39. To ask the Minister for Health when a cannabis for medicinal use access programme will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28316/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (28 Jun 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: 49. To ask the Minister for Health when a Sláintecare implementation plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28312/18]