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- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: By the end of December 2012, the number of adults-----
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: Sorry; I did not interrupt the Deputy. Every time I want to read facts into the record, he seeks to interrupt.
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: I am going to stay here until I have read them.
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: By the end of December 2012, the number of-----
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: -----adults having to wait more than nine months for inpatient and day-case surgery was down to 86 from a total of 3,706 in December 2011. This represents a decrease of 98%.
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: The number of children waiting more than 20 weeks for inpatient or day-case surgery was down to 89 from 1,759 in December 2011.
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: This marks a 95% decrease.
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: I am not.
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: The number of patients waiting more than 13 weeks for routine endoscopy decreased by 99% from 4,590.
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: Far from it. The reality is that the Deputies continually allude to a single system. I made two things very clear when I was in opposition, and we have made them very clear since we came into government. The first thing, which relates to Deputy Ó Caoláin's question, is that the programme for Government makes it clear that there will be multiple insurers in a competing market....
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: Regardless of who may have continued to raise the argument, it is not Government policy.
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: The Labour Party is very much a part of this. It is as much a part of it as Fine Gael is. Its members have been absolutely supportive of it.
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: The second issue to raise is that-----
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: That is the element of the Dutch system which we sought to emulate.
- Other Questions: Health Service Reform (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: We looked to the Danish system when establishing a patient safety authority. Advances have been made there and in Canada. We looked to the UK in the case of the trust model for hospitals. We first saw the special delivery unit system in operation in Northern Ireland. Far from being based on the Dutch system, our approach is based on several systems. I always said we would take the best...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: In Naas General Hospital the first five weeks of 2013, compared to same period in 2011, there has been a 52% decrease in the number of patients waiting on trolleys., i.e., the number of patients on trolleys has more than halved. Immediately following my appointment, I set out to address the issues which have been causing unacceptable delays in patients being treated in our hospitals. I...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12, 39 and 343 together. I am pleased to inform the Deputies that MRSA rates are at a 6-year low and would like to assure the Deputy that the management of Healthcare Acquired Infections (HCAIs) including MRSA is a key patient safety issue for my Department and the Health Service Executive (HSE) and a number of significant initiatives have been developed to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: In Sligo General Hospital in the first five weeks of 2013, compared to same period in 2011, there has been a 65% decrease in the number of patients waiting on trolleys at the hospital. Immediately following my appointment, I set out to address the issues which have been causing unacceptable delays in patients being treated in our hospitals. I established the Special Delivery Unit (SDU), as...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: In the Mid Western Regional Hospital in the first five weeks of 2013, compared to same period in 2011, there has been a 9% decrease in the number of patients waiting on trolleys. Immediately following my appointment, I set out to address the issues which have been causing unacceptable delays in patients being treated in our hospitals. I established the Special Delivery Unit (SDU), as set out...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2013)
James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 16 and 76 together. Xolair (Omalizumab) is indicated as additional therapy for the prophylaxis of severe persistent allergic asthma in patients who cannot be controlled with the standard treatments. This medicine is being prescribed nationally. This is administered in a hospital setting by a health care professional, namely a nurse, under the care of a...