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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Feb 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance Provision (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Government has embarked on a major reform programme for the health system, the aim of which is to deliver a single-tier health service, supported by universal health insurance (UHI), where access is based on need, not income. The White Paper on Universal Health Insurancewas published on 2nd April 2014 and provides detailed information on the UHI model for Ireland. The model set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE has a National Safety Incident Management Policy which sets out the steps to be taken when an investigation is required. In addition, the HSE has a range of processes in place which provide guidance on these matters including, the National Policy for Safeguarding Vulnerable Persons at Risk of Abuse, Trust in Care etc. The HSE’s National Safety Incident Management Policy...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (25 Feb 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE has advised that all patients from the 2013 waiting list initiative who have not been seen, diagnosed, treated and discharged back to their GP have all been accepted back to Letterkenny General Hospital on their appropriate waiting list. This includes the surgical pre assessment, day surgery and in-patient surgical waiting lists. These patients will be treated within the hospital's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Methadone maintenance treatment is a critical stabilising treatment that enables the individuals involved to counter their drug problem use and to rebuild their lives. This treatment, in conjunction with other services and supports, such as counselling, training, rehabilitation and after-care, provides a pathway to recovery for the individual affected by substance misuse. Retention in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Feb 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I expect the new pay scales for new entrant consultants agreed between Management and the IMO at the LRC on 7th January 2015 will help us to keep more of our medical graduates at home and persuade consultants who are working overseas to return to Ireland. I want this new package to send a strong message to Irish medical graduates that pay and also working conditions are improving again and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the particular patient query raised by you, 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 my officials will follow the matter up with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Feb 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I am advised by the HSE that all donated organs are utilised to maximum clinical benefit for Irish patients. Beaumont Hospital, one of the three transplant centres, is facing some challenges in the recruitment of transplant surgeons to fill current vacancies. Highly trained transplant surgeons can be difficult to locate and the hospital continues to carry out an international...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (25 Feb 2015)

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. The Special Delivery Unit (SDU) Protocol: The Management of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to specific complaints in relation to experiences of individuals in our hospitals, there is a formal complaints policy, entitled “Your Service Your Say”,details of which are on the HSE website, at . In accordance with this procedure, a complaint must be made in the first instance to the hospital in which the incident causing the complaint occurred. If an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions Data (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 128 and 129 together. I am advised by the Minister for Justice and Equality that the scheme of ex gratia payments to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen laundries and two similar institutions is still open and will be for the foreseeable future. In view of this, it is difficult to estimate the final number of participants in the redress...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: International Agreements (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In February 2012, H.E. Mr. CHEN Zhu, Minister of Health of the People's Republic of China extended an invitation to visit China to James Reilly, the then Minister for Health. Minister Reilly visited China from 13 to 19 August 2012. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on health co-operation between the Department of Health of Ireland and the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2014,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: Health Services Funding (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply 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. I met with the Irish Osteoporosis Society (IOS) on Monday 23 February 2015....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Infrastructure (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Despite constraints on our capital and revenue budgets in recent years, a very ambitious infrastructure programme is under way to support the provision of an enhanced and a more integrated range of health care services. Details of the infrastructure to be completed in 2015 and which will become operational this year or in early 2016 are set out in Appendix 4 of the HSE’s National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (25 Feb 2015)

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 my officials will follow the matter up with them.