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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted in the last year as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The HSE is currently recommending that only critical time dependent elective procedures are undertaken at this time due to the on-going and significant increased demand for bed capacity related to Covid-19. This decision was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (13 Jan 2021)

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: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

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: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted in the last year as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The HSE is currently recommending that only critical time dependent elective procedures are undertaken at this time due to the on-going and significant increased demand for bed capacity related to Covid-19. This decision was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Files (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I assume that the Deputy is referring to an integrated Electronic Health Record (EHR) which will incorporate health systems data from multiple health systems. We need to be clear that an integrated Electronic Health Record that spans multiple health ICT systems and health service settings in many different locations for most health patients is a long-term programme of work. It...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Files (13 Jan 2021)

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 Waiting Lists (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the matter raised by the Deputy, the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has advised that each hospital supplies a weekly Waiting List extract to the NTPF in accordance with the defined Inpatient / Day Case and Outpatient Waiting List Minimum Dataset (MDS). One of the fields in this dataset is the Date of Birth of the patient. In the Irish health system, patients are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (13 Jan 2021)

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: Dental Services (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Dental Treatment Services Scheme (DTSS) provides dental care free of charge to medical card holders aged 16 and over. These services are provided by approximately 1,400 independent dental practitioners who have a contract with the HSE. I understand that since March 2020, 177 dentists have withdrawn from the Scheme and that 78 new applications are being processed. This is within the normal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As we are aware, an agreement was reached by the parties in October 2018, in relation to a process of pay restoration for staff employed by the 50 pilot agencies. Pay restoration commenced in April 2019 with an annual pay increase of up to €1,000. Any outstanding balance would be paid in two equal amounts in 2020 and 2021, if due. The agreement reached at the WRC noted that some...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Incidence (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Based on the official Vital Statistics publications of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) the total number of deaths assigned an underlying cause of death of ‘suicide and intentional self-harm’ in 2020 is 97 (72 registered in Quarter 1 2020 and 25 registered in Quarter 2 2020). Legally, in Ireland, a death can be registered up to three months after the date of occurrence. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted in the last year as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The HSE is currently recommending that only critical time dependent elective procedures are undertaken at this time due to the on-going and significant increased demand for bed capacity related to Covid-19. This decision was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jan 2021)

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 Staff (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As we are aware, an agreement was reached by parties at the Workplace Relations Commission in October 2018, in relation to a process of pay restoration for staff employed by 50 pilot agencies. Pay restoration commenced in April 2019 with an annual pay increase of up to €1,000. Any outstanding balance would be paid in two equal amounts in 2020 and 2021, if due. The agreement reached...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jan 2021)

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: Medicinal Products (13 Jan 2021)

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 Screening Programmes (13 Jan 2021)

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 Staff (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Under section 39 of the Health Act 2004, the HSE provides financial assistance to organisations to provide services similar or supplementary to a service that the HSE may provide. Staff in these organisations are not public servants and were not subject to the provisions of FEMPI legislation. They did not automatically receive the cuts that were applied to the pay of public servants. These...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Department of Health, the HSE and the Health Products Regulatory Authority, together with the makers of medicines and medical devices, wholesalers and pharmacists, are continually working to review the supply of medicines and medical devices to Ireland to anticipate and respond to, in so far as is possible, any potential vulnerabilities in medical device supply as a consequence of Brexit....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy is advised that the relevant correspondence, which issued from my Department to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on 9th December 2020, has been published on the Department of Health website and can be viewed here: A reply to this correspondence was received. It is being prepared for publication and will be published on the Department of Health website...