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- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The management and delivery of health and personal social services, including related budgetary issues, are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act, 2004. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the...
- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of...
- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. The services and targets to be provided by the HSE in 2008 are set out in the National Service Plan which I approved in November 2007 and the Addendum to the Service...
- Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Tackling Healthcare Associated Infections continues to be a priority for the Government and the HSE. In March 2008, the Chief Medical Officer of my Department instructed the HSE to make C. difficile a notifiable disease and since May 4th all cases are required to be notified to the relevant Department of Public Health. The number of cases reported to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre...
- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 168 and 169 together. The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the health repayment scheme in conjunction with the appointed scheme administrator, KPMG/McCann Fitzgerald. The Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 provides a clear legal framework to repay recoverable health charges for publicly funded long-term residential care. Recoverable health charges are charges which were imposed on...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 175 and 176 together. Almost 130,000 people work full-time or part-time in our public health services. In recent years, the Government's high level of investment in health has achieved and maintained significant increases in the numbers of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals employed in the public health services. The Government has invested...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The ongoing review of the chest x-rays and CT scans of approximately 4,600 patients in the North East commenced in mid-May and is expected to conclude within eight weeks. The review covers the period from August 2006 to August 2007. All patients and their families will be contacted by letter when their chest x-ray or CT scan has been reviewed. When all the x-rays and CT scans have been...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Based on the National Quality Assurance Standards for Symptomatic Breast Disease Services, and the fact that the BreastCheck screening programme will significantly reduce the number of symptomatic breast cancer presentations, the Health Service Executive has determined that we require eight specialist breast cancer centres nationally. To comply with the assurance standards, the HSE has...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. It is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public....
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — General Practitioners: General Practitioners (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The number of General Practitioners in active practice is approximately 2,500. A joint Department of Health and Children and HSE working group on workforce planning was established in June 2006. It also includes representatives of the Departments of Finance and Education and Science, and the Higher Education Authority. Research is being undertaken by FÃS on behalf of the joint working...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 183 to 185, inclusive, together. Under the Health Act 2004, the management and delivery of health and personal social services is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive. This includes operational responsibility for the establishment of Primary Care Teams. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The HSE, which has operational responsibility for the delivery of services under the DTSS, is continuing to monitor the situation arising from the withdrawal of approximately 190 contractors out of a total of approximately 1,400 who provide services under the scheme. I understand that over 70 new contractors have joined the scheme in the intervening period. Officials in my Department are...
- Written Answers — Regional Health Forums: Regional Health Forums (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Section 42 of the Health Act 2004 provided for the setting up of a system of four Regional Health Forums. The forums were established with effect from 1 January 2006 under the Health Act 2004 (Regional Health Forums) Regulations 2005, SI No. 797 of 2005. The function of each forum is to make such representation to the Executive as the forum considers appropriate on the range and operation...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (10 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: My Department has requested from the Health Service Executive the data sought by the Deputy and when the necessary information is received I will be in further communication with him.