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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (8 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The Government has decided that the numbers employed across the public service must be reduced in order to meet its fiscal and budgetary targets. The health sector must make its contribution to that reduction. This policy requires the health service to reduce its workforce to 98,938 wholetime equivalent employees (WTEs) by the end of 2013. The total number employed in the public health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion Issues (8 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Since the publication of Healthy Ireland - a framework for improved health & wellbeing earlier this year, the focus of my Department has been on underpinning the structures on which the future work of Healthy Ireland can be progressed and establishing clear structures and accountability mechanisms for implementation. The implementation of Healthy Ireland is being overseen by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Expenditure (8 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 595 and 596 together. The 2013 budget for the Dental Treatment Services Scheme (DTSS) is €63m. The total number of medical card holders (over 16 years of age) at the end of December 2012 was over 1.421 million. Over 396,000 dental examinations were provided to medical card holders under the DTSS during 2012 i.e. almost 28% of eligible medical card...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (8 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Drugs misuse continues to be one of the most significant challenges facing our country. It is highly destructive and has devastating effects on individuals, relationships, families, communities and society in general. Recent trends indicate that levels of illicit drug use remained stable in Ireland between 2006/7 and 2010/11. However, polydrug use is increasingly becoming the norm among...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The HSE publishes monthly performance data, including performance information for pre-hospital emergency response times at national level. This information is collected from data reported at regional level within the National Ambulance Service and is available to management for information and decision-making in relation to local service provision. In relation to your query regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (9 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The Second Stage of the Public Access to Defibrillators Bill, which sets out the requirement to provide defibrillators in a range of settings and for events which have a regular attendance in excess of 100 persons per day, was passed in the Seanad in June 2013. The Minister has requested the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) to undertake a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (9 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Collaborating with individual hospitals, the SDU, together with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) and the HSE, has developed the outpatient waiting list minimum dataset. This allows data to be submitted to the NTPF from hospitals on a weekly basis and, for the first time, outpatient data is available on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (9 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Beaumont Hospital is the centre for delivering Ireland’s national cochlear implant programme, with surgical provision for patients under six years being carried out in the Children’s University Hospital Temple Street. Since the programme commenced in 1995, over 700 patients have received cochlear implants. Beaumont Hospital carried out ninety cochlear implants in 2012 (42...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (9 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Beaumont Hospital is the centre for delivering Ireland’s national cochlear implant programme, with surgical provision for patients under six years being carried out in the Children’s University Hospital Temple Street. Since the programme commenced in 1995, over 700 patients have received cochlear implants. Beaumont Hospital carried out ninety cochlear implants in 2012 (42...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Trusts (9 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The hospital groups are configured so as to facilitate the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care in a cost effective manner. I wish to assure the Deputy that appropriate patient care pathways will not be affected by the establishment of hospital groups. In terms of timescale, within a year of establishment, the new hospital groups will be required to produce a strategic plan...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Trusts (9 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Patients will not be restricted in their choice as a result of the establishment of Hospital Groups. Expectant mothers may be referred by their GP to the hospital of their choice.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (9 Oct 2013)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 197 to 199, inclusive, together. As these are service matters, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Retirements (9 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: There are currently no targeted redundancy or early retirement packages in place in the Department of Health. To date in 2013 all staff who retired have been over 60 years of age or have retired due to ill health. There is no mechanism to predict how many early retirements there may be in 2014 as a result of the grace period for pension purposes under the Haddington Road Agreement.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Removal (10 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: My Department published two reports by Dr Deirdre Madden in 2006. The first of these reports "Post Mortem Practice and Procedures" inquired into the policies and practices relating to the removal, retention and disposal of organs from children who had undergone post-mortem examination in the State since 1970. The second report "Working Group on Post Mortem Practice" considered the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (10 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Delayed Discharges continue to present a significant challenge to the optimal use of acute hospital resources. They impede the operational functioning of a hospital and expose patients concerned, predominantly older persons, to the inappropriate risks of longer acute hospital stays e.g. hospital acquired infections. Higher numbers of delayed discharges can also be associated with extended...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (10 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: My Department is working closely with the HSE to ensure that full phased implementation of Money Follows the Patient (MFTP) will commence from January 2014. I am confident that all necessary steps are being taken to deliver the new funding model in line with this target date. Progress has been made on a number of areas in this regard including completion of a “State of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Incidence (10 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: As the particular queries raised by the Deputy are service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Oct 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...