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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drug schemes, under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. In reaching a decision, the HSE examines all the evidence which may be relevant in its view for the decision and will take into account such expert opinions and recommendations which it may have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Nov 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. In relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for the pricing and reimbursement of medicines; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: In response to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (22 Nov 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 Staff Data (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: My Department administered a National Lottery Discretionary Fund up to and including 2016 from which once-off grants were paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services. No National Lottery funding was provided to the organisation named by the Deputy during the past six years.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: A key objective of Consultant Contract 2008 is to improve access for public patients to public hospital care. Latest data from September 2017 shows that the public/private mix at a system level stands at 82% public for elective in-patient work and at almost 86% for day-case work. This is consistent with the typical 80/20 split provided for in the consultant contract. The Contract...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE publish their Performance Profiles on a quarterly basis. The next Performance Profile, covering July-September, is expected to be published on the HSE website on 23 November, 2017. Management Data Reports in respect of the three months will also be published on the HSE website at the same time.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly on the position regarding the audit of consultant contract compliance. A key objective of Consultant Contract 2008 is to improve access for public patients to public hospital care. The contract sets out clear rules on the level of private practice that may be undertaken by consultants, depending on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: I can advise the Deputy that I responded to her question, 850, regarding maternal deaths on 26 July 2017. At the same time I referred question 650 to the HSE for response, which was issued directly to the Deputy on 8 August 2017, a copy of which has been provided to the Deputy. As you will be aware, since December 2015, each of the 19 Maternity Units in the country are obliged to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: I am delighted to before the joint committee today. As the Chairman stated, I am joined by the Secretary General, Mr. Jim Breslin, and Ms Laura Casey, also from the Department of Health. I am grateful to have the opportunity to discuss the Sláintecare report with the committee. I will set out the process that we are engaged in to act on the report and will outline some of the steps...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: The Chairman can expect me to pick up the pace, and I certainly will, but I expect to be held to account in respect of timelines to which the Committee on the Future of Healthcare adhered. The Chairman criticised the lack of an implementation plan for Sláintecare but the committee, on which he sat, asked me to produce one by the end of the year. As I indicated, a plan will be produced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: It is up to all of us-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputies Kelleher, O'Reilly and Murphy O'Mahony for their questions. Deputy Kelleher is correct in that the political system cannot wash its hands and say that all of the challenges relating to the health service have been caused somewhere else. No party, including Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, or Government can absolve itself from the continuum of change which there has been in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: I am not suggesting that anybody said it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: I am not saying Deputy O'Reilly or any other member suggested that. There has been an issue in our health service regarding the non-collection of fees owed to the State. That is not my view or a political view, it was the view of the Comptroller and Auditor General in his 2015 report. It is appropriate, therefore, that, in its service planning every year, the HSE sets out its expectation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (22 Nov 2017)

Simon Harris: Just in case the public thought I was somehow or other satisfied with the current situation-----