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- Written Answers — Control of Infectious Diseases: Control of Infectious Diseases (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 145, 182, 237 and 238 together. Tackling Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs), including MRSA is a priority for the government and for the Health Service Executive (HSE). I share the public concern in relation to MRSA. The HSE has established a National Infection Control Action Plan. The Infection Control Steering Group is Chaired by Dr. Pat Doorley,...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Prior to the establishment of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) this year, accreditation was carried out by the Irish Health Services Accreditation Board. This has now been taken over by HIQA. The bulk of work on accreditation has been carried out in the acute hospital sector, for which an Acute Care Assessment Scheme was developed. This scheme provides a quality and...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: As part of its management of A & E services the HSE has been working to identify areas of best practice within networks, and to replicate these elsewhere in order to improve the delivery of A & E services and acute hospital services generally for the benefit of patients. One of the best examples of this involves the development of Acute Medical Assessment Units in acute hospitals where...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: The health service employs almost 130,000 personnel and this equates to 111,570 wholetime equivalents (WTEs) as at 30 June 2007, excluding home helps. This employment level includes the Health Service Executive, Voluntary Hospitals and Voluntary providers of Service for People with a Disability. Over the period since the establishment of the Health Service Executive, recorded health service...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 150 and 245 together. I have no plans to review the decision to locate the new National Paediatric Hospital on a site to be made available at the Mater Hospital, Dublin. As the House is aware, a joint Health Service Executive/Department of Health and Children Task Group was established in February 2006 to advise on the optimum location for the development of...
- Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: The Board of the Health Service Executive approved the preferred bidder status for the following six co-located hospital sites at its July meeting:â Waterford Regional Hospital Cork University Hospital Limerick Regional Hospital Sligo General Hospital Beaumont Hospital St. James's Hospital It is expected that the signing of the project agreements for these sites will be completed during...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Cost comparisons between the public and private hospital sectors are difficult to make. For example, private hospital costs and prices include capital costs in the form of depreciation whereas in the public hospitals these are funded separately and are excluded from Casemix averages. Also, public hospitals carry an additional cost in that they cater for training and education of medical and...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Assisted Human Reproduction: Assisted Human Reproduction (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: In March 2000 the then Minister for Health and Children established the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction (CAHR). Its terms of reference were: 'To prepare a report on the possible approaches to the regulation of all aspects of assisted human reproduction and the social, ethical and legal factors to be taken into account in determining public policy in this area.' The CAHR was...
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: The recent decisions of the Health Service Executive (HSE) to designate four managed cancer control networks and eight cancer centres will be implemented on a managed and phased basis. A detailed transitional plan will be put in place to facilitate the progressive, gradual and carefully managed transfer of services over the next two years or so. The HSE plans to have completed 50% of the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 158 and 161 together. Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: The figures cited recently in the media as being on hospital waiting lists included patients waiting less than three months for their procedure. It has long been the practice, under several Governments, not to include patients waiting for hospital treatment for less than 3 months in published waiting list statistics. For example, in 1997, about 32,000 patients were on such waiting lists for...
- Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: The information requested by the Deputy is in the process of being compiled pursuant to the Deputy's similar question of 2 October last. As the Deputy will appreciate, compiling data covering a ten year timespan, under a number of headings, and relating to a multiplicity of agencies will take time. Every effort is being made to provide the information as speedily as possible.
- Written Answers — Anti-Poverty Strategy: Anti-Poverty Strategy (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: All memoranda for Government that are prepared by the Department of Health and Children evaluate the potential impacts on poverty and social exclusion of policy proposals, in accordance with the requirements specified in the Cabinet Handbook. Training of Department of Health and Children staff in respect of poverty impact assessment is ongoing. As part of the roll out of poverty impact...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Nuclear Safety: Nuclear Safety (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) is responsible for measuring the levels of radioactivity in foodstuffs and in the environment on an ongoing basis and for assessing the significance of these levels. Their data indicate that the levels of radioactivity in the Irish environment â and in fish caught in the Irish Sea â are extremely low and do not pose a significant...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 185 and 187 together. In June 2005, a number of concerns aboutbreast cancer services at Barrington's Hospital, Limerick were expressed over the phone to an official of my Department by a Consultant employed by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The majority of the concerns reflected the fact that the breast cancer service at Barringtons Hospital had a...