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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Professionals (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Physiotherapists Registration Board will soon make the necessary by-laws under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 to allow it to establish its register early next year. The title of physiotherapist will, as a consequence, be protected for the exclusive use of the board's registrants when the register's 2 year transitional period ends in 2018. I am currently examining...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme Eligibility (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The original Lourdes Hospital Redress Board was set up in 2007 as a response to the Lourdes Hospital Inquiry. The objective of the Redress Board was to provide compensation to women who were former patients of Dr Michael Neary, who had unnecessary obstetric hysterectomies and also to women under 40 years of age who had unnecessary bilateral oophorectomies, i.e. the removal of both ovaries or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the Health Service Executive to reply to the Deputy directly on this operational matter. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, he can contact my Private Office and the matter will be followed up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 179 and 180 together. Patients who have received hospital services and who require follow-on care in a hospital setting are provided with a scheduled appointment prior to their discharge from hospital. A patient requiring unscheduled services outside of hours may access those services through a hospital emergency department. It is a statutory provision...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: During my recent visit to Arranmore Island this issue was raised by the other Deputies in the area and by the Community Council. Any decision made by the Saolta University Health Care Group will be made with patient safety outcomes to the fore. However, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: 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 National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 191 together. With regard to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to the detailed queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: 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 National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulation of Health and Social Care Professions (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Psychotherapists and counsellors are not currently regulated under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005. However, the Act provides that the Minister for Health may, by regulation, designate a health and social care profession not already designated if he or she considers that it is appropriate and in the public interest to do so and if specified criteria have been met. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The ability of the HSE and the health service to attract and retain high quality frontline staff shapes the extent to which the HSE can maintain and develop the range of health services required. There is an international nursing and medical manpower shortage, leading to difficulties in recruiting nurses, doctors and consultants. This difficulty is being experienced by other English...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: On 10 August 2015 the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) submitted a planning application for the new hospital and satellite centres to An Bord Pleanála. The oral hearings for the new children’s hospital began on 30 November. Much of the work undertaken for the project on the Mater site was transferable to the project in its new location. This includes in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to the detailed queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ED overcrowding is a priority issue for the Government. Last December I convened the ED Taskforce to assist in dealing with the challenges presented by ED overcrowding and significant progress has been made to date. Additional funding of €117 million has been provided in 2015 to relieve pressures on acute hospitals. In April, €74 million was provided to reduce delayed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cover (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Act 1970 (as amended) provides that all persons ordinarily resident in the country are entitled, subject to certain charges, to public in-patient hospital services and to public out-patient hospital services. Section 55 provides that the HSE may provide private in-patient services to persons who are not entitled to, or who do not have or have waived eligibility to public...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Action 46 of Future Healthcommits the Department of Health to work with the HSE to implement an approach to workforce planning and development that achieves the objectives of: recruiting and retaining the right mix of staff; training and upskilling the workforce; providing for professional and career development; and creating supportive and healthy workplaces. This approach will include the...