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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 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: Health Services Provision (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: In order to reduce the numbers of long-waiting patients for scoliosis surgery, I asked the HSE to develop an action plan for 2017. The plan has been finalised and I intend to publish it shortly. Every patient, including children under the age of 14, who needs to be treated in 2017 has been considered and is included in the plan. I have asked officials in my Department to consider the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 May 2017)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 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 the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 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: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 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 the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Health Records (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: The importance of, and the opportunity for, eHealth or digital health to support health care reform and the delivery of a modern health care system has been recognised for quite some time. In 2013, the Government approved and published a strategy for developing eHealth capability in the Irish health system called the eHealth strategy for Ireland, 2013. This strategy sets out a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: Since the start of 2017 there have been approximately 5% less patients waiting on trolleys nationally compared to the same period last year. As the Deputy will be aware, in September the HSE launched its ‘Winter Initiative Plan 2016-2017’ which provided €40 million of additional funding for winter preparedness. This Initiative was developed to manage the expected...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 May 2017)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (2 May 2017)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: Irish paediatric patients travel to the UK for heart, liver and lung transplants, while kidney transplants are carried out in the Children's University Hospital, Temple Street. In the case of paediatric heart transplants, only around 5 to 6 cases arise in Ireland each year and the current policy reflects this low level of activity. The possibility of heart transplants for paediatric...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drug schemes in accordance with the provisions of the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 941 to 943, inclusive, 945, 952 and 984 together. Following extensive mediation discussions, agreement was reached late last year between the St.Vincent’s Healthcare Group (SVHG) and the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) on the relocation of the NMH to the Elm Park campus. The terms of the agreement, which has now been published,provides for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme Data (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: The HPSC collects data on uptake among Healthcare Workers working in hospitals and long term care facilities annually using web-based surveys sent to each facility. The reports are distributed back to each facility and hospital and HSE management and placed on the HPSC website In Q1 2017, the target for influenza vaccine uptake among Healthcare Workers has been set at 40% by the HSE....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE advises that hearing aids supplied in the public audiology service conform to the highest international standards and are procured using an international procurement process. The HSE Integrated Audiology Programme set up a working group of key stakeholders in 2015, with the aim of assessing the standards that were applied to the fitting of medical devices (i.e. hearing aids) within...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Administration (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drug schemes in accordance with the provisions of the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (2 May 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 the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: On 10 February I published the HPRA’s Report ‘Cannabis for Medicinal Use – A Scientific Review’, and announced the establishment of an access programme for cannabis-based treatments, to be provided for patients under the care of a medical consultant, for the following conditions: - spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis resistant to all standard therapies...