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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the matter. 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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (10 Mar 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: Ambulance Service Provision (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has not received any communication from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, indicating that they are opposed to the proposed changes with regard to call taking, dispatch and clinical governance of ambulance services in Dublin. The Deputy may wish to note that the need for such changes was identified by HIQA in their review of pre-hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Government regards the situation in Emergency Departments as unacceptable and acknowledges the difficulties that overcrowding in EDs causes for patients, their families and for the staff who are doing their utmost to provide safe, quality care in very challenging circumstances. All hospitals have escalation plans to manage not only patient flow but also patient safety in a responsive,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (10 Mar 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: Hospital Appointment Status (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: You will appreciate that it is contrary to the HSE Governance Act of 2013 for me to make a direction to the HSE or a hospital to benefit or prioritize any individual person or patient. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Mar 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: Disease Management (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borelliosis, is an infection caused by a bacterium (Borrelia burgdorferi). It is transmitted to humans by bites from ticks infected with the bacterium. Lyme borelliosis was made statutorily notifiable in Ireland by the Infectious Diseases (Amendment Regulations) Regulations 2011. Lyme borelliosis is diagnosed by medical history and physical examination and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (10 Mar 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: Hospital Appointment Status (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: You will appreciate that is contrary to the Health Service Executive (Governance) Act 2013 for me to make a direction to the HSE or a hospital to benefit or prioritise any individual person or patient. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 427, 428 and 431 together. As these are service matters, the questions have been referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for attention and direct reply to the Deputy. If no reply has been received from the HSE within 15 working days will the Deputy please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with the Executive.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE operates the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS) for persons entitled to treatment in another EU/EEA member state or Switzerland under EU Regulation (EC) No. 883/2004, as per the procedures set out in EU Regulations (EC) No. 987/2009, and in accordance with Department of Health Guidelines. Patients have the ability to apply to the HSE TAS seeking access to public healthcare outside the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the query raised, as this is a service matter I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days will he please contact my private office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If he has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days will he please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days will he please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Joint Oireachtas Committee Report on Childhood Immunisation made recommendations in relation to the development of vaccination services for children in Ireland. Since that time the majority of the recommendations made in the report have been addressed and implemented. In relation to the recommendation regarding a no fault vaccine damage compensation scheme my Department convened an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days will he please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is an operational matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days will he please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: You will appreciate that is contrary to the Health Service Executive (Governance) Act 2013 for me to make a direction to the HSE, or a hospital, to benefit or prioritise any individual person or patient. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the matter. 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.