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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has advised that as of 23 March 2017 there were 521 people (including children) on the outpatient waiting list on the Neurology Outpatient waiting list with a patient area of residence of Donegal. The waiting times of those on the list is indicated in the following table. Neurology Outpatient waiting list with a patient area of residence of Donegal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2017)

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. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (28 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: The Department has received a report from the NMBI in relation to the matter raised by the Deputy. The NMBI advised that the applicant applied for registration in the General Nurse Division of the Register on 21 December 2016. The NMBI confirmed that the final supporting document was received on 6 March 2017. A number of clarifications were required from the applicant. Although some...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 404 to 407, inclusive, together. The immunisation programme in Ireland is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). NIAC is a committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland comprising of experts in a number of specialties including infectious diseases, paediatrics and public health. The committee's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (28 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: The National ED Escalation Framework sets out procedures to be followed in hospitals during periods of high demand for emergency care, to ensure that safe care is provided to all patients. In order to respond to surges in ED demand, under the Framework, hospital managers may, in consultation with the relevant clinical leads, review and cancel non-urgent planned electives, where appropriate....

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (28 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE has statutory responsibility for the administration of the community drug schemes. Therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (28 Mar 2017)

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 Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2017)

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: Medical Card Applications (28 Mar 2017)

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 Health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (28 Mar 2017)

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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (28 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (28 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to possess." Venesection for the treatment of Haemochromatosis is not considered a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2017)

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: Health Insurance Levy (28 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: Risk equalisation is a mechanism designed to support the objective of a community-rated health insurance market, whereby all customers pay the same net premium (adjusted to reflect any loadings applicable under lifetime community rating) for the same health insurance product, irrespective of age, gender or health status. Under the risk equalisation scheme, credits are paid to insurers for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (28 Mar 2017)

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 Health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Mar 2017)

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. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (28 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: In relation to the particular query, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“notes: — the urgent need to develop an appropriately sited, world class facility to care for children and young people from all over Ireland who are in need of specialist and complex care; — that clinical considerations were paramount in the decision by...

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: That is not what I said.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Mar 2017)

Simon Harris: My Department and the HSE are committed to securing and developing the role of Portlaoise Hospital within the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group. A report published in December 2016, which HIQA undertook at the request of the Department of Health, shows how much services have improved for the women using maternity services at the hospital. The extent of progress in patient safety measures in...