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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: As stated to this House on 16 April 2013, the health technology assessment conducted by the Health Information and Quality Authority and published in 2012 found that the cost of a national deep brain stimulation (DBS) programme in Ireland would exceed the cost of continuing to fund DBS through the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS) by approximately €21,000 per patient over 10 years. Over...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The three existing paediatric hospitals in Dublin - Children's University Hospital Temple Street, Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin and the paediatric service at Tallaght - will come together in the new children's hospital when built. The HSE National Service Plan 2013 sets out the quantum and type of health services to be provided in 2013 to the three hospitals, within the overall...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The Deputy will be aware that I announced details of a series of measures last December arising from a review of Drugs Task Forces in order to better equip them to respond to the current pattern of substance misuse. These measures included the extension of the remit of the Task Forces to include alcohol addiction and the establishment of a National Coordinating Committee for Drug and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Issues (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The employers of the home helps concerned are funded by the HSE under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004, which provides that the Executive may assist a body that provides a service similar or ancillary to those which the Executive itself may provide. The staff of these employers are not public servants and their pay and superannuation arrangements are not subject to the control of my...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Framework for Smaller Hospitals (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: I published the Framework for Smaller Hospitals and the Hospital Groups Report on 14 May 2013. In preparing the Hospital Groups Report, the project group carried out a comprehensive consultation process with all acute hospitals, including those hospitals covered in the Smaller Hospitals Framework, and other key advocacy groups which requested an opportunity to be consulted. In addition, a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The Framework for Smaller Hospitals lists the services that are appropriate to a smaller hospital to ensure a safe, high quality services for patients. The reorganisation of services in Bantry General Hospital is being made in order to ensure that patient safety is not compromised and that the people of West Cork will get the best possible outcome from attending the appropriate hospital best...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Issues (25 Jun 2013)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Statistics (25 Jun 2013)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: Statutory pre-hospital emergency care services for the State are provided by the HSE National Ambulance Service (NAS) and, on behalf of the NAS in the greater Dublin area, Dublin Fire Brigade. A significant reform programme has been underway in recent years in pre-hospital care services across the country, including the greater Dublin area, for the development of a clinically driven,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The Government is fully committed to protecting frontline services, including services for children with disabilities, to the greatest extent possible, nowithstanding the financial constraints which the health sector must operate within. Significant resources have been invested by the health sector in recent years in services for children with disabilities. In particular, there is now an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (25 Jun 2013)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: 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 lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: Management of the healthcare property portfolio is a service matter. Therefore your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Staff (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: While the HSE employs a significant number of home helps directly, the majority of home helps working in the health service are employed by organisations working on behalf of the HSE. There are no specific regulations governing the retirement age of home helps within the HSE or broader health service. Retirement age, if any, can vary depending on the nature of the contract held,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jun 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: Nursing Staff Provision (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Legal Costs (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 581 and 582 together. As the Deputy's questions refer to HSE operational matters I have referred them to the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive for attention and direct reply to him.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Collaborating with individual hospitals, the SDU together with the NTPF and the HSE have developed the OP waiting list minimum dataset that allows for data to be submitted to the NTPF from hospitals on a weekly basis and, for the first time, outpatient data is available on www.ntpf.ie. For 2013, a maximum waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The management of inpatient and daycase waiting lists for patients awaiting public health care is based on the principle that after urgent and cancer patients are treated, then clinically assessed routine patients should be seen in chronological order (i.e. longest waiter first). Should the patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment,...