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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Vaccination Programme (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: My priority is to ensure that children/adolescents affected by narcolepsy with symptom onset post pandemic vaccination are provided with services and supports to meet their health needs. The Health Service Executive and the Department of Education and Skills together provide a comprehensive range of services and supports to those affected. The HSE through its advocacy unit and regional...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Service Executive Staff (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: Revised HSE management structures are being put in place in conjunction with the new governance arrangements provided for in the Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012; the recruitment process for a Chief Financial Officer and five National Directors, including the Director of Mental Health, has now commenced. The competition for the post of Director of Mental Health was advertised...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Service Staff (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: The overall number (WTE excluding career break) of audiologists in the public health service at 31 January 2013 was: Audiological Scientist 3.8 Audiological Scientist, Senior 6 Audiologist 16.75 Audiologist, Chief 13.66 Audiologist, Senior 17.75 Total 57.96 In relation to the breakdown between adult and paediatric audiology services requested by the Deputy, I have asked the HSE to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Service Executive Investigations (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: Firstly, I wish to offer my sincere condolences to the relatives of the person who died. Under the Acute Coronary Syndrome Programme, patients with symptoms and ECG findings indicative of a STEMI-type acute heart attack are treated according to the National STEMI Protocol, which was officially launched in October 2012. It has been in use in the west of Ireland since July 2012. Under the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Service Executive Complaints Procedures (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: Part 9 of the Health Act 2004 provides for the making of complaints. The Health Service Executive (HSE) has published a "National Healthcare Charter, You and Your Health Service" which outlines what service users can expect and what their responsibilities are whenever and wherever they use health services and the mediation and facilitation provided for the handling of complaints. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to waiting list management in general, the National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2013, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the particular query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Special Delivery Unit (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: The Special Delivery Unit (SDU) was formally established in the Department of Health in September 2011. It was staffed by persons with the necessary clinical, IT, operational and management skills to address issues relating to both unscheduled and scheduled care, who were seconded to the Department from the HSE and some other organisations. Administrative support for the SDU was provided by...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Hospital Services (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the specific query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Action Plan for Jobs (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: The establishment of the National Health Innovation Hub is one of seven 'Disruptive Reforms' included in the Government's Jobs Action Plan 2013. The aim is to establish a Hub to drive collaboration between the health system and the enterprise sector leading to the development and commercialisation of new healthcare technologies, products and services, emerging from within the health system...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Health Services (6 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the specific query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Agency Staff Issues (7 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: As the use of agency staff is a matter for the HSE in the first instance, the Deputy's enquiry has been referred to the Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the specific query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to waiting list management in general, the National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2013, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement. In that regard, it is a matter for the Executive to recruit, manage and deploy staff to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The Executive is the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (7 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: The National Ambulance Service (NAS) is not a static service. The Service deploys its resources in a dynamic manner and works on an area and national, rather than a local, basis. The dynamic deployment of ambulance resources ensures that the nearest appropriate resource is mobilised to the location of any incident. The NAS has been taking a number of steps to improve response times....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: Firstly, I wish to offer my sincere condolences to the relatives of the person who died. Under the Acute Coronary Syndrome Programme, patients with symptoms and ECG findings indicative of a STEMI-type acute heart attack are treated according to the National STEMI Protocol, which was officially launched in October 2012. It has been in use in the west of Ireland since July 2012. Under the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Staff (7 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: The HSE has in the past confirmed to all health sector employers that Student Medical Scientists on placement must be paid the monthly training allowance as set out in my Department's consolidated salary scales. This allowance was approved for continued award to new beneficiaries, following the review of public sector allowances conducted in 2012. The current rate payable is €813.58...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: All patients with symptoms and ECG findings indicative of a STEMI-type acute heart attack are treated according to the national STEMI protocol, which has been defined by the Acute Coronary Syndrome Clinical Programme, in accordance with international best practice. If patients can be transported to a primary PCI centre dedicated to 24/7 treatment of STEMIs within ninety minutes, then they go...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (7 Mar 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, I will arrange for a senior official at the Department of Health to write to you on these queries.