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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of services at Galway Regional Hospital. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Health Reform Programme: Health Reform Programme (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I regard the report of the national task force on medical staffing as a significant contribution to the development of acute hospitals services and to the organisation of medical staffing. The report makes important proposals for reducing the working hours of non-consultant hospital doctors, NCHDs, in line with the European working time directive. It highlights the need to implement changes...

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for facilities at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis. An outline development control plan for the hospital has...

Written Answers — Birth Certificates: Birth Certificates (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Births and Deaths Registration Acts 1863 to 1996 include a provision for the correction of an error of fact or substance in a register of births, which allows for a correction on foot of a statutory declaration setting out the errors in the entry in question. These provisions may be used to remove erroneous details from a birth entry. The Acts also include provisions for the entry of...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132 and 133 together. The report of the task force on assaults on psychiatric nurses was completed in 2003. In addition to quantifying the level of assaults and making recommendations on prevention, the report contained proposals for a scheme of compensation for psychiatric nurses who have been seriously injured as a result of an assault by a patient in the...

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department is currently studying the Supreme Court judgment in detail and will take on board all the consequences for policy and law arising from the judgment. The details of a repayment scheme to address the situation following the Supreme Court decision are currently being finalised and it is only after this that it would be possible to calculate the money owed by specific area.

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department is studying the Supreme Court judgment in detail and will take on board all the consequences for policy and law arising from it. The details of a repayment scheme to address the situation following the Supreme Court decision is being finalised and it is only following this that it would be possible to calculate the money owed by specific area.

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The national pensions reserve fund was established for the purpose of meeting as much as possible of the cost to the Exchequer of social welfare pensions and public service pensions to be paid from the year 2025 until the year 2055, or such other subsequent years as may be specified, as set out in section 18(1) of the National Pensions Reserve Fund Act 2000. Section 20(1) of the Act states...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: Westdoc is the out-of-hours general practitioner-led service which operates on a partnership basis between the participating GPs and the Health Service Executive, western area. The service has been operating since December 2002 and to date it has received more than 95,000 patient contacts. Westdoc has 107 general practitioners providing service to public and private patients in counties...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The latest available information is for end-September 2004. On this basis, the information as requested by the Deputy is as set out in the following table. The Deputy may wish to note that it is estimated that approximately 64% of health services personnel formally classified as "management/administrative" are involved in direct service provision to the public. Total Health Service Staff...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for paediatric cardiac surgery. It is intended to refer the matter to the executive for its views on the suggestion made by the person referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of services at Roscommon County Hospital. Accordingly, my Department has requested the...

Written Answers — Computerisation Programme: Computerisation Programme (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: Health Level 7, HL7, is one of several American National Standards Institute accredited standards developing organisations operating in the health care arena. Its mission is to: provide standards for the exchange, management and integration of data that support clinical patient care and the management, delivery and evaluation of health care services. Specifically, to create flexible, cost...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive, which assumed responsibility for the delivery of health and personal social services with effect from 1 January 2005, has indicated that it is issuing a letter to all patients who have authorised the executive to act as their agent offering them choices with regard to their pension books and that arrangements will be made to return the pension books to them if...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The practices of charging or seeking a contribution from clients with a disability in residential care who had income which may include a disability benefit or allowance has been common practice. Following the Attorney General's advice that there was no legal basis for such charges, the health agencies were instructed to stop charging for long-stay care on 9 December 2004. The situation...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (23 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the assessment of service requirements for its area and ensuring that arrangements are in place to...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (23 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The roll-out of the national breast screening programme to the remaining counties is a major priority in the development of cancer services. This will ensure that all women in the relevant age group in every county have access to breast screening and follow up treatment where appropriate. A capital investment of approximately €21 million has been approved to construct and equip two static...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take QuestionsNos. 129 to 131, inclusive, together. The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Services Executive, HSE, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the HSE to provide data...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. As the person in question resides in Dublin, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's eastern regional area to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Feb 2005)

Mary Harney: With effect from 1 January 2005, under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive has responsibility for the delivery of health services. Under section 31(1) of the Act, the executive is obliged to prepare, adopt and then submit to me for approval a service plan for the financial year or other period as may be determined by me. No one person within the executive makes the final...