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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: It is not possible to estimate the cost of increasing out of hours services or rural GP services by 10%, as to estimate the cost of increasing the level of service provided would require an increase in the number of GPs providing out of hours services and an increase in the number of rural GPs. GPs are independent private contractors who receive payments directly from private patients, most...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Community pharmacy is recognised as the most accessible element of our health service with an unequalled reach in terms of patient contact and access. Therefore community pharmacists play a vital role in the Irish Health Service in the delivery of holistic patient care. I also fully acknowledge that community pharmacy has played a pivotal role in responding to the health needs of the public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The HSE ICT Capital budget is €95 million for 2020 up from €85m in 2019. Investment objectives are in line with Project Ireland 2040and support eHealth activities agreed in the Programme for Government and support the cross-party reform priorities of Sláintecare as well as a continuing body of work on national ICT maintenance and upgrades A 10% increase in the 2020 HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy will be aware, the Programme for Government commits to delivering a ‘Carers Guarantee’ that will provide a core basket of services to carers across the country, regardless of where they live. This commitment is consistent with the National Carers' Strategy, which seeks to support family carers to care with confidence through the provision of adequate information,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Since 1 September 2018 all those in receipt of either a full or half-rate Carer's Allowance or Carer's Benefit are automatically eligible for a GP visit card. It is noted that many persons in receipt of the Carer's Support Grant will qualify for a GP visit card as the Carer's Support Grant is paid automatically to persons in receipt of Carer's Allowance or Carer's Benefit. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Programme for Government provides for the finalisation of the new Sláintecare Consultant Contract and the introduction of related legislation to support 'public-only work' in public hospitals. The FEMPI Acts currently prohibit pay increases for serving public servants and will require amendment to enable pay increases for serving consultants who move to the Slaintecare 'public only'...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: There are no individual staffing budgets allocated to Units of my Department. Within the Department’s overall staffing budget and depending on prioritised business needs, employees of the Department are assigned to work within business units as required. The previously named Communicable Diseases Control Policy Unit is one of the Units which has very recently been brought in under a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government has indicated that it will publish a medium term national roadmap for managing the next phase of the pandemic response. Significant financial resources have already been provided across all aspects of government, and future resourcing will be dealt with by way of the Estimates 2021 process.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1164 and 1165 together. The implementation plan for the recommendations of the Scally inquiry was approved by Government on 11 December 2018. The implementation plan contains 170 actions. At the end of Q1 2020, 137 of the 170 identified actions were completed. I fully support the full implementation of the recommendations of Dr Scally and am committed to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Scally Report made a series of recommendations in order to ensure that all cervical cancer cases are known to the CervicalCheck programme, and that audits should be an important component of cervical screening based on good clinical practice. This led to the establishment by the HSE of Expert Reference Groups to recommend how interval cancer audit processes in the screened population...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1167 and 1384 together. Neither the Minister for Health nor the Department of Health has any role in the development of vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines. Ireland is currently involved in a Joint Procurement Exercise (JPE) being operated by the European Commission to procure suitable, safe and effective vaccines to combat COVID-19. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Part 8 of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 provides a legislative framework for Advanced Healthcare Directives (AHDs). An AHD is a statement made by a person with capacity setting out his or her will and preferences regarding treatment decisions that may arise in the future when he or she no longer has capacity. My Department remains committed to commencing these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019provides the legislative framework for a number of important patient safety issues, including the mandatory open disclosure of a list of notifiable patient safety incidents and the notification of same externally to the Health Information and Quality Authority, Chief Inspector of Social Services and the Mental Health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The cost of a critical care bed has several determining factors. However, a survey undertaken by the HSE of active and recently completed projects suggests that new critical care beds can cost up to, and sometimes above, €1m, depending on a variety of factors. The HSE has advised that the average annual cost of running a critical care bed is €747k. However, it should be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Funding is being sought to address the delivery of cancer services in the context of the Covid pandemic, and in the context of an increasing and an ageing population, through the Winter/Continuity planning and the 2021 Estimates processes. This funding would support the restoration of cancer treatment services towards pre-Covid levels. The areas for which funding is sought include...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020 was enacted on 2nd August 2020. This Act provides, amongst other things, for the necessary legislative amendments to the Health Act 1970 (as amended) to increase the weekly gross medical card income limits for those aged 70 and over to €550 per week for a single person (currently €500...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.