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- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (14 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (14 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (14 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: Fees and allowances are paid to a range of health professionals, including general practitioners, pharmacists, dentists, ophthalmologists, optometrists and dispensing opticians who hold contracts with the HSE, persons providing smear taking services as part of the National Cervical Screening Programme and consultant psychiatrists and other personnel who participate in the Mental Health...
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (15 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: Under the General Medical Services (GMS) contract, a general practitioner (GP) is expected to provide his/her patients who hold medical cards or GP visit cards with all proper and necessary treatment of a kind generally undertaken by a GP. Where blood tests form part of the investigation and necessary treatment of patients' symptoms or conditions, these should be provided free of charge to...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (15 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (15 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: The total cost to the HSE of fluoridation in 2006 was approximately â¬3.25 million. I am unaware of any correspondence from my Department or from a previous Minister stating otherwise.
- Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: The increase in costs in 2010 can be attributed to the implementation of the corrective actions identified in the audit.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: Clinical trials of medicinal products for human use are currently regulated by the European Communities (Clinical Trials on Medicinal Products for Human Use) Regulations, 2004. The operating procedures of clinical trials ethics committees are set out in Schedule 2 of these Regulations. These committees are required to be independent, consisting of healthcare professionals and lay members and...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter is has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: In 2010 the HSE introduced a number of measures, including the suspension of prophylaxis treatment, to contain expenditure in the Dental Treatment Services Scheme (DTSS), which provides free dental services to medical card patients. Given the current difficult position of the public finances, the budget for the DTSS has been capped at the 2008 level of â¬63 million and it is not possible to...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 500 and 501 together. The Health Service Executive has stated that 345,806 persons over 70 years now hold medical cards and that 224 hold GP Visit cards. The Executive estimates that approximately 72,000 card holders in the over 70 age group are reviewed each year. Data on the number of medical cards withdrawn on a yearly basis is not routinely collected by...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Water Fluoridation: Water Fluoridation (20 Sep 2011)
Róisín Shortall: The report of the EU Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) was published in June of this year is report has not made any findings of negative health or environmental effects concerning fluoridation of water. The SCHER Report states that a narrow margin exists in children between achieving the beneficial effects of fluoride in reducing dental decay and the potential...