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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Incidence (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The National Cancer Registry of Ireland (NCRI) publishes data on cancer incidence, treatment and survival in Ireland. This data can be accessed on the NCRI website (). Information on this site includes incidence of all invasive cancers in Ireland by county, 1994 - 2011. While survival figures are not available county-level, the survival data published by the NCRI shows the trend of ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 606 to 608, inclusive, and 611 together. The National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) has nine symptomatic breast cancer clinics operating in eight designated cancer centres, with a satellite unit in Letterkenny. When GPs refer women under the age of 50 who are deemed to be at high risk of breast cancer they are offered surveillance, as suggested in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 612, 720 and 736 together. This matter is sub-judice and I am therefore restricted in the response I can give to your questions. I understand from the HSE that Ms Cannings' indemnity has been suspended temporarily due to specific and serious concerns expressed by other clinical staff about patient safety. Indemnity is not removed from a professional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy's question appears to relate to top-up payments in Section 38 agencies, I have asked the HSE to respond directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has received an application for funding from the 2014 National Lottery allocation from the organisation in question. This is one of a large number of applications currently being assessed by my Department. The organisation will be informed of the outcome of the application as soon as a decision has been made.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 633 and 634 together. Last July, my department published a national plan for rare diseases. This was published in the context of an estimate that there are between 5,000 and 8,000 rare diseases whose specificities are a limited number of patients and a scarcity of relevant knowledge and expertise. In general, the prospect of initiating a screening...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: This Government is committed to improving our ambulance service and its performance. The National Ambulance Service (NAS) is modernising and reconfiguring its services, to ensure emergency pre-hospital care is delivered in an appropriate and timely manner. A significant reform programme is underway, which will provide a clinically driven, nationally co-ordinated system, supported by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Discharges (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: My Department sought information on the matter outlined by the Deputy. Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, has acknowledged there were communications issues in relation to this case, and I understand that senior management at the hospital have met with the parents to hear their experience and complaint, and are working to support them during the discharge process. The hospital is also...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. In relation to the specific case raised by the Deputy, as this is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: Neither I, nor officials from the Department, have met the individual or company in question.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: HIQA has advised my Department that the review is nearing completion. I look forward to receiving the report, the findings of which will, I hope, inform the ongoing development and improvement of the National Ambulance Service.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. In relation to the specific case raised by the Deputy, as this is...