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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services Provision (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive Community Audiology service administers and monitors hearing tests for adults who are at risk for hearing loss. Appointments for the audiology service are sent in a strict chronology according to clinical priorities and date of receipt of referral. The HSE has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: There is a range of supports available to families of persons with mental health difficulties. Funded parent, family and/or child support groups are available either through the Mental Health Services provided by the HSE, or through state funded voluntary organisations such as SHINE, Aware or Grow. Mentalhealth-support is an organisation created to help the families, care-givers and those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 623, 635 and 643 together. The Government has decided to develop a new policy framework providing for eligibility for a range of appropriate health services to take account of medical conditions. The HSE has established an Expert Panel to examine the range of conditions and services that should be considered as part of this process. A public consultation has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2014,has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. In relation to the specific case raised by the Deputy, as this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2014,has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy will appreciate that the prescribing of medications is solely a matter for the individuals medical practitioner to determine based upon their expert knowledge. Recommendations for malaria chemoprophylaxis for sub-Saharan Africa are country specific. Links to country specific malaria chemoprophylaxis guidance prepared by World Health Organisation (WHO), Centers for Disease Control...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 634 and 661 together. The Long Term Illness (LTI) Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act, 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975 specifying the conditions covered by the LTI Scheme. The conditions covered by the LTI Scheme are as follows: Acute Leukaemia; Mental handicap; Cerebral Palsy; Mental Illness (in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive has recognised the need to increase the level of consistency and standardisation in the way services for children with disabilities are delivered. It is currently engaged in a reconfiguration of existing therapy resources to multidisciplinary geographic based teams for children as part of its National Programme on Progressing Disability Services for Children and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Location (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The new children's hospital is a commitment in the Programme for Government. In November 2012 the Government announced its decision that the new children’s hospital will be co-located with St James’s on its campus, ensuring it benefits from the broadest possible range of adult sub-specialty expertise and research capability, and will ultimately be tri-located there with a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I am aware that a reminder issued to the HSE and I have issued a further one. I will revert to the Deputy once the information requested has been received.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Responsibilities (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy will be aware the Health Service Executive has 15 working days to respond to queries that have been referred to it. I will forward the Deputies question in relation to this matter to the Executive for direct reply to him.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Professional Ethics (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995 and the Standards in Public Office Act 2001 certain prescribed bodies must furnish a statement of compliance with legislation to the Standards in Public Office Commission. These bodies include Government Departments, public officials and public servants. Compliance with legislation is overseen by the Standards in Public Office Commission....

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Payments (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As the information requested by the Deputy is not routinely available in my Department, I have asked the Health Service Executive to reply directly to the Deputy on this matter.