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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: I welcome the delegates and thank them for the presentations. Representatives of the HSE and the Department attended a previous session this morning. This emanated from an RTÉ programme. I assume the witnesses have seen it and are aware of its contents. It is not just about that as the matter has been discussed at this committee for some time. It concerns stretched budgets and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: For clarity, I was not suggesting necessarily that the C contract was the solution to the problem. I was asking whether the IHCA saw it as a solution to the problem of recruitment or retention. On top of that, everyone around the table accepts that the vast majority of consultants work exceptionally long hours and go above and beyond the call of duty. However, if that is the case, I assume...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: They will move from a B contract which allows for a certain amount of treatment of private patients in public hospitals to off-site private treatment. Is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Is there an increased number of applications from consultants at Mr. Woods's committee to move from a B contract to a C contract? If so, is it not an immediate undermining of the long-term goal and strategy of the Sláintecare report which is aimed primarily at disentangling public and private care? I do not know for how long a C contract is awarded. If we are changing B contracts to C...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: Is there a health and safety issue? For example, pilots are only allowed to fly for so long, while truck drivers are only allowed to drive for so long. If someone is a consultant with a C contract who is obligated to work 33 hours a week, can he or she work as many hours as he or she likes outside of that number or is there an obligation to turn up half awake? Are there health and safety...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Healthy Living Strategies (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of participating schools implementing a healthy schools action plan. [53797/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional critical care beds that have been provided at Cork university hospital in 2017. [53615/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 341. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE target of eliminating emergency department waiting times of greater than 24 hours for persons over 75 years of age will be met in 2017; and the number of persons over 75 years of age that have had a wait of more than 24 hours in an emergency department in 2017. [53616/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 432. To ask the Minister for Health if persons aged 75 years of age or over have experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours in 2017; and, if so, the hospital in which the wait occurred [53883/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy Implementation (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of national standards to improve access to antenatal anomaly screening in all maternity units as set out in the national maternity strategy. [53617/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Bereavement Care (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of a range of improvement actions based on the national standards for bereavement care following pregnancy loss and perinatal death across all 19 maternity units. [53618/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the relocation of the Rotunda Hospital, the National Maternity Hospital and University of Limerick Maternity Hospital. [53619/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 345. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of monthly hospital safety statements; and the hospitals that provide them, in tabular form. [53620/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out of the model of care of hereditary haemochromatosis and the model of care for therapeutic phlebotomy in association with primary care services. [53621/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital groups and CHOs that have completed Healthy Ireland implementation plans. [53796/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 350. To ask the Minister for Health if an implementation plan for the Healthy Ireland framework for brief intervention and health behaviour change has been developed; and if it has been commenced. [53798/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 351. To ask the Minister for Health if each newly diagnosed person with diabetes is now being offered a place on the next available structured patient education course. [53799/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 352. To ask the Minister for Health if a self-management support framework for diabetes, asthma, COPD and cardiovascular disease has been developed; and when the implementation plan will commence. [53800/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 353. To ask the Minister for Health if a needs assessment for cardiac rehabilitation has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53801/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 354. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the development of the standardised chronic disease pathway. [53802/17]