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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: My Department has received an application for funding from the 2013 National Lottery allocation from the organisation in question. This is one of a large number currently being assessed. The Deputy will be informed of the outcome of the application as soon as a decision has been made.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The HSE operates a Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS), for persons entitled to treatment in another EU/EEA member state or Switzerland under EU Regulation 1408/71, as per procedures set out in EU Regulation 574/72 and in accordance with Department of Health and Children Guidelines. Within these governing EU Regulations and the Department of Health and Children's Guidelines, the TAS provides for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to persons on a temporary visit to Ireland, under EU Regulations a person who becomes ill or injured while on a temporary stay in any EU/EEA Member State or Switzerland may available of emergency health care in the public health system of the country under the terms of that countries public health system. The European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is issued to facilitate this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (17 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Agency staffing arrangements are intended to be used in the health service to address short-term needs, such as periods of staff absence for maternity leave or due to illness. In recent years there has been an increase in usage of such arrangements, which are expensive and not ideal from a continuity-of-care perspective. There are a number of measures in train to address the level of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: My Department is working with the HSE's National Organ Donation and Transplantation Office to establish the required infrastructure to improve organ donation and transplantation rates. Priority areas for action in 2014 are being identified and the deployment of key donation personnel will be considered in this context.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Significant progress has been made on waiting times since July 2011, when the Special Delivery Unit (SDU) was established to tackle access to acute hospital services. The figures referred to in the Deputy's question concern August of this year. The overall waiting list growth trend experienced from January to July is now reversed in the August figures. There has been a 2% reduction in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract Issues (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: A central objective of the consultant contract is to improve access for public patients to public hospital services. The contract sets out clear rules on the mix of public-private practice that may be undertaken by consultants and measures to manage these rules by appointed clinical directors. These include a total prohibition on consultants undertaking private practice (Type A contract...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: On 19 September this year, an ambulance broke down near Dublin while transferring a patient from Cork for a transplant procedure. The patient, who was ambulant, completed the transfer in a second vehicle and successfully received the planned treatment. The cause of the breakdown has been identified as a lack of fuel. The National Ambulance Service has commenced a full investigation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I have been advised that the child in question became symptomatic on 20 August 2013 and was admitted to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital , Drogheda on 22 August 2013 and diagnosed positive with E. Coli 0157. The child was later transferred to Temple St Hospital and has since made a complete recovery. As part of the HSE investigation, the child's family was asked about the food it had consumed in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (17 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: Health Services Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters they have been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I am joined by the Secretary General of my Department, officials from the HSE and my fellow Ministers, Ministers of State, Deputies Alex White and Kathleen Lynch. The committee will be aware there is a time conflict here with the Private Members' business motion in the Dáil. The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, will have to leave at 12.15 p.m. to take that motion. Perhaps...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I did warn the committee at the outset that my statement would take a little longer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: That is the direction of travel as we seek to achieve universal health insurance with free access to GP care for everybody in the community so that people go to their doctors early and have their chronic illnesses monitored and more prevention can take place and fewer people will end up in hospitals, which is the most expensive end of the health service. This is a case of investing now for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I will address the issues raised by Deputy Kelleher first and in answering the questions raised I will have to defer to some of the team present. The Deputy mentioned the very tragic case of Tania McCabe and the lessons that do not seem to have learned by the rest of the system. Earlier today I was at a national clinical excellence council to discuss the bringing in of new standards - not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Yes. The report produced by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggested that somewhere between €60 million and €200 million could be saved through probity in the GMS, or primary care reimbursement service, as it is now known. That report was published 18 months ago, so obviously there has been a lot of action since then. None the less, a figure of €113 million in savings to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: No, I will dispute that. There are people in hospital whose acute phase of treatment is over and who do not get access in the way that they could and should to rehabilitative care, for example, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy. We want to ensure that happens. The end result may be that they still need long-term care, but we can avoid it in many cases,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Update on Health Issues: Discussion (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I am well aware of the figures. The last issue the Deputy mentioned was that of bilateral cochlear implants. I have made this one of my priorities, but we face an extraordinary challenge next year, in that we must save €660 million in the health service after having already saved €3 billion, 10% of our staff having left, an 8% increase in the population, a 2% increase in...