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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Crisis Pregnancy Services (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: In relation to crisis pregnancy counselling, a primary concern of Government is the protection of the public when availing of health or social care services. A crisis pregnancy is perhaps one of the most stressful events in a woman’s life and therefore places her in a very vulnerable position. Positive Options, a crisis pregnancy service which is funded and overseen by the Health...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the terms of the European Union (Application of Patients' Rights in Cross Border Healthcare) Regulations 2014, the Health Service Executive has responsibility for providing information to enable patients resident in the State to exercise their rights in relation to access to healthcare in other Member States. I have asked the HSE to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to you.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to you.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: In relation to the queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service issues, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: The Saolta University Healthcare Group has advised that there is currently one consultant Endocrinologist at Letterkenny University Hospital providing the adult Diabetes service and is receiving support from a locum Consultant General Physician who has a diabetic interest. Additional clinics are being run on monthly basis (1 - 2 extra clinics per month), in order to address waiting lists...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Data (26 Sep 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: Health Products Regulatory Authority (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: General practitioners and other healthcare professionals that have the authority to prescribe drugs are encouraged to report their patients’ experiences of adverse drug reactions to the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA); while this is a voluntary action on the part of these healthcare professionals, the HPRA proactively encourages and facilitates reporting of suspected...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Charges (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, the Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: As the HSE has responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres and other Primary Care facilities, the Executive has been asked to reply directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 350 and 351 together. In October 2015, my predecessor, Minister Leo Varadkar T.D., signed regulations which allow certain prescription-only medicines to be administered by trained members of the public in emergency situations. In order for an organisation to avail of an emergency medicine without the need for a prescription, they must first register...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (26 Sep 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 353 and 354 together. As these questions relate to service matters, I have arranged for the questions to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.