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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: The emphasis of my Department and HSE Organ Donation Transplantation Ireland (ODTI) is on endeavouring to ensure that we avail of all opportunities for organ donation. In 2016, at total of 280 organ transplants were carried out, the second highest annual performance achieved to date. The Living Kidney Donor Programme reached a milestone of 50 living donor transplants for the first time...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: As you are aware, the development of a policy on a trauma system for Ireland is a joint initiative from the Department of Health and the HSE in recognition that the management of patients with multiple injuries compares poorly with contemporary international standards in trauma care. The primary aim of developing this policy is to improve patient outcomes and to lead to a reduction in...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: The development of a national and genomic medicine network will be addressed in the context of the HSE Report of the National Genetic and Genomic Medicine Network Strategy Group(2016). The report and its recommendations are under consideration by the HSE in conjunction with my Department with a view to determining priority next steps.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: A total of 1,540 patients attended the rapid access lung clinics between January 2017 and May 2017. Data for June is not yet available.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: A total of 1,264 people were seen in rapid access prostate clinics to end-May 2017, the latest figures available. Of these, 598 were seen within 20 working days of receipt of referral in the cancer centre.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for the administration of the community drug schemes; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: The establishment of Irish acute hospitals into a small number of Hospital Groups aims to provide an optimum configuration for hospital services to deliver high-quality, safe patient care in a cost effective manner, and to allow integration and improve patient flow across the continuum of care. Hospital Groups are making significant progress in working together to progress from being...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Misuse of Drugs Act a licence is required to import cannabis, which is a Schedule 1 controlled substance, into Ireland. Under the Act the import licence application would need to be made by an Irish registered doctor, for the purposes of fulfilling a prescription for treatment of his or her patient, where the proposed course of treatment has been endorsed by the consultant...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...