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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Data (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The Health Insurance Authority, the independent statutory regulator of the private health insurance market in Ireland, provides advice to my Department on an ongoing basis, including in relation to market statistics and developments. The main relevant market developments over the past five years are as follows: - The number of people who currently hold private health insurance is 2.047...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs) and colonisation/infection of our patients with antimicrobial-resistant organisms (AMR) such as MRSA is one of my priorities in protecting patient safety. HCAIs represent a major cause of preventable harm and increased healthcare costs. While not all HCAIs are due to AMR a significant proportion are. HCAIs are not an inevitable...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: Since my appointment as Minister for Health, I have set out to address the issues which cause delays in patients being treated in our hospitals. I established the Special Delivery Unit, which is working to unblock access to acute services by improving patient flow through the system. Significant progress has been made on reducing the numbers of patients on hospital trolleys in Accident and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: All staffing arrangements have to be considered in the light of the current budgetary pressures in the health service and the need to reduce the numbers employed throughout the public sector. Nonetheless, it is open to the HSE to continue to recruit NCHDs, nurses and consultant staff in circumstances where it has been established that there is an urgent service requirement and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: For 2013, as set out in the HSE Service Plan, the target maximum wait times for inpatient and day case treatment are: Adults 8 months, Children 20 weeks and Routine GI endoscopy 13 weeks. In July 2011, when the Special Delivery Unit was set up a total of 6,277 patients were waiting more than nine months for inpatient or daycase treatment. By the end of 2012, that number had been reduced by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: Last May, I announced the introduction of Hospital Groups to provide for organisational change, giving more autonomy and better enabling the reorganisation of services in a well-planned manner. Naas General Hospital is part of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group, which also includes the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise, Midlands Regional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Bullying in the Workplace (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (18 Dec 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: HSE Expenditure (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to revert to the Deputy with the information sought concerning agency costs. The great majority of NCHD posts are filled at present. However there are a number of vacancies, mainly in smaller hospitals and in certain specialties, including Emergency Medicine and General Medicine at Registrar level. Filling these posts represents a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The pay rates being applied to the special advisors employed in my Department are in accordance with the relevant pay guidelines.

Seanad: Protection of the Public Interest from Tobacco Lobbying Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I thank Senator Crown for raising this issue. I am always thankful for any opportunity to talk about tobacco and the harm that it causes in our society. I specifically thank Senator Crown for all the work he does on the protection of public health from the harms of tobacco. He is a strong advocate for the elimination of smoking related diseases and deaths in this country. He does, after...

Seanad: Protection of the Public Interest from Tobacco Lobbying Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: They recoil at the sight of the gangrenous foot or the wasted man who is dying from lung cancer, and they ask why anyone would ever smoke. That is the difference between reality and advertising. Advertising seeks to ensnare and entrap our children. The reality, our children are wise enough to know, is something to be avoided. The industry argues that the main reason it opposes standardised...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospitals Policy (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: I welcome the opportunity to outline progress regarding the establishment of hospital groups and to outline the position with regard to Waterford Regional Hospital specifically in that context. The Report on the Establishment of Hospital Groups, which I launched on 14 May, is the most fundamental reform of the Irish acute hospital system since the foundation of the State. The introduction of...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospitals Policy (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The Senator will appreciate that the number of posts will be overseen by the new chief executive officer of the group and that those matters will come to pass in due course. I want to inform the Senator that the new chair, Geraldine McCarthy, was in the House today to meet with representatives of the Oireachtas from the Waterford area. I do not know if the Senator was aware of that but I...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospitals Policy (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: That is regrettable because she would be very interested to meet with all Oireachtas representatives. We will have to check if an e-mail was sent or what happened in that regard. The future of Waterford Regional Hospital is critical to the south east. I believe its future is underpinned and strengthened by being part of a hospital group. This is one of the underlying principles that guides...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospitals Policy (18 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: Hospital treatments that should take place in model 3 hospitals should not be taking place in quaternary hospitals . There should not be services in model 3 hospitals that should take place in model 2 hospitals, and there should not be services in hospitals that properly belong to primary care.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (19 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: The number of staff (WTE excluding career breaks) working in the primary care area of the public health service, broken down by staff category, at 31 December 2012 and at 31 October 2013 is set out in the following table: Staff Category 31/12/2012 31/10/2013 General Support Staff 318.41 313.87 Health & Social Care Professionals 1920.16 2004.67 Management & Admin...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (19 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: A governance framework has been put in place for the Health Reform Programme to coordinate implementation in a planned, coherent manner. The governance arrangements, as promised in Future Health, include a Programme Management Office (PMO) and a Health Reform Programme Board, in the Department of Health and a Systems Reform Group in the HSE. The Programme Board is chaired by the Secretary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety Agency Establishment (19 Dec 2013)

James Reilly: My Department is liaising with the Health Service Executive on the details surrounding the establishment of the Patient Safety Agency to ensure an identifiable and distinct leadership responsibility for patient safety and quality at national level having regard to the need for a robust quality and safety function within the new delivery structures of the Reform Programme. Discussions are...