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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (9 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: Hospital Appointments Status (9 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: Medical Card Applications (9 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 Health Service...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 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 Staff (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: Breastfeeding figures at first Public Health Nurse (PHN) visit and at three months are reported quarterly in the HSE Performance reports. Figures for 2016, listed in the HSE March 2017 Management Data Report, show that 56.8% of babies were reported as breastfeeding at first PHN visit (shortly after discharge from hospital), with 38.8% still breastfeeding at 3 months. The Breastfeeding in a...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (9 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 (9 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: National Maternity Hospital (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: There is no differentiation between public and private in-patient rooms in the designs for the new hospital. Indeed, all in-patient rooms are of a similar design. In order to support the current commitment in the consultants' contracts, some private outpatient consulting space will be provided. The charge to consultants for the use of those rooms is an operational matter and will be...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Remuneration (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: The urgent care centres to be developed on the campuses of Tallaght Hospital and Connolly Hospital are an integral part of the new children's hospital, providing urgent care as well as outpatient services including rapid access general paediatric clinics. The aim is to improve geographic access to urgent care for children in the Greater Dublin Area and support primary and community care...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 374 to 380, inclusive, together. The National Women and Infants Health Programme has been established in the HSE to lead the management, organisation and delivery of maternity, gynaecology and neonatal services, strengthening such services by bringing together work that is currently undertaken across primary, community and acute care. In relation to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Service Level Agreements (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 382 to 385, inclusive, together. Under section 39 of the Health Act 2004, the HSE has in place Service Level Agreements with voluntary providers which set out the level of service to be provided for the grant to the individual organisation. Any individuals employed by these section 39 organisations are not HSE employees and therefore, the HSE has no role...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 386 and 387 together. As these questions relate to service matters, I have arranged for the questions to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: In relation to the query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: In relation to the query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services Provision (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 392 and 393 together. 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (9 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 Health...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 395, 449, 450, 461 and 501 together. BowelScreen, the National Bowel Screening Programme, is run by the HSE's National Screening Service. It offers free bowel screening to men and women aged 60-69. The BowelScreen Round One Programme Report, 2012-2015, launched last month, shows that 521 cancers were detected through bowel screening, 3 out of 4 of which...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (9 May 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (9 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 Health...