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- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: Our Lady's Hospital Navan is part of the Ireland East Hospital Group. Hospital Groups must increasingly focus on networks of service provision with smaller hospitals managing routine, urgent or planned care locally, more complex care managed in the larger hospitals and better linkages with primary, continuing and social care. A number of developments at the hospital have been funded in...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Oct 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: Hospital Appointments Status (25 Oct 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 Appointments Status (25 Oct 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 Staff Data (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: The 2017 funding level for the health services announced on Budget Day 2017 relates to expenditure for both my Department and the HSE The specific savings measures included within the Budget Day figures relate to drug price reductions associated with the agreement reached with the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) earlier this year and the initiatives implemented under...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: It is recognised that there is an international nursing and medical manpower shortage, leading to difficulties in recruiting nurses and doctors. Ireland is experiencing intense competition globally and from private providers for nursing and medical personnel due to this shortage, and the international standing of Irish nursing and medical graduates. While a number of innovative measures have...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: The Long Term Illness (LTI) Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). The conditions covered by the scheme are: acute leukaemia; mental handicap; cerebral palsy; mental illness (in a person under 16); cystic fibrosis; multiple sclerosis; diabetes insipidus; muscular dystrophies; diabetes mellitus; parkinsonism; epilepsy; phenylketonuria; haemophilia;...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, the Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act, 1970, medical cards are provided to persons who are, in the opinion of the Health Service Executive (HSE), unable without undue hardship to arrange GP services for themselves and their dependents and every application must be assessed on that basis. In accordance with the Act, the assessment for a medical card is determined primarily by reference to the means, including...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Oct 2016)
Simon Harris: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. The Health Service Executive operates the General Medical Services scheme, which includes medical cards and GP visit cards, under the Health Act 1970, as amended. It has established a dedicated contact service for members of the Oireachtas specifically for queries relating to...