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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Contracts (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 774 to 778, inclusive, together. In 2019 the Sláintecare Programme Implementation Office (SPIO) established an Elective Hospitals Oversight Group, under the joint governance of the Health Service Executive, Department of Health and Sláintecare, to guide the development of the elective/ambulatory sites, as outlined in the National Development Plan...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 780 and 781 together. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) have prepared and circulated guidelines for public sector employers and employees in relation to Covid-19 hr issues, such as that which you have raised. These arrangements apply not only across the HSE and the Hospital Groups, but to all civil and public service employees...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy's specific questions refer to the numbers of patients with delayed transfers of care and the associated numbers of bed days lost, I have asked the HSE to respond directly with the requested information.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic the HSE had to take measures to defer most scheduled care activity in March, April, and May of this year. This was to ensure patient safety and that all appropriate resources were made available for Covid-19 related...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: In recent years, my Department has worked with the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to improve access for patients waiting for high volume procedures, including cataracts. Ophthalmology services are provided throughout all hospital groups in the country, with cataract removal one of the key procedures carried out as part of this specialty. A key development in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic the HSE had to take measures to defer most scheduled care activity in March, April, and May of this year. This was to ensure patient safety and that all appropriate resources were made available for Covid-19...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 792 and 793 together. As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy directly in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to the deputy directly in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 795 to 797, inclusive, together. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been an increased focus in 2020 on deployment of eHealth initiatives to support both acute and community care. Within weeks of the first wave of the pandemic, solutions such as telehealth and electronic transfer of prescriptions were implemented, followed shortly afterwards by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the contract, the new children's hospital is due to be completed by the end of 2022 and handed over to Children's Health Ireland to open in 2023 after a period of commissioning.  There will be delays associated with the requirement to cease works on the site of the new Children’s Hospital due to Covid-19 restrictions. As of March 2020, when the site closed due to Covid-19,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The project to co-locate relocation of the National Maternity Hospital on the St Vincent’s University Hospital Campus is progressing.  Site preparatory and enabling works, required to support the relocation of the new National Maternity Hospital, are underway at present and consists of Aspergillus prevention works, campus infrastructural upgrade works, enabling works / site...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The development of Primary Care Centres (PCCs) is a key building block in enabling the vision of Sláintecare to become a reality. The latest report from the HSE indicated that there are 135 Primary Care Centres fully operational nationwide. Six of these have become operational so far in 2020, and a further six are expected to open by the end of the year. This represents good progress...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Programme for Government commits to ongoing implementation of the Sláintecare vision at the highest levels through the “Cabinet Committee on Health, chaired by the Taoiseach, giving overall strategic direction, and overseeing the implementation of Sláintecare”. The Government recognises the need for enhanced governance and accountability in the health service,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic the HSE had to take measures to defer most scheduled care activity in March, April, and May of this year. This was to ensure patient safety and that all appropriate resources were made available for Covid-19...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government's medium-term strategy Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19, sets out Ireland's approach to managing and living with COVID-19 in a range of areas over the next 6-9 months. The Plan sets out five levels of response, each with a number of measures designed to help us all lower COVID-19 transmission and setting out what is permitted at that moment in...