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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Jan 2016)

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: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Jan 2016)

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: National Children's Hospital (13 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Government's decision to locate the new children’s hospital on the St. James’s hospital campus was based on the over-riding priority of best clinical outcomes for our children, and in particular the sickest of these. It is important to recognise the benefits of co-location with St James's Hospital. St. James's Hospital and the new children's hospital are both model 4...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin is the largest provider of scoliosis surgery for children and young people. Funding was allocated in 2015 for additional consultant posts including two consultant orthopaedic surgeons, anaesthetist and support staff at Crumlin while capital funding was also provided for a new theatre on site to expand theatre capacity further. The 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Jan 2016)

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: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Jan 2016)

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: Health and Social Care Professionals (13 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Physiotherapists Registration Board will soon make the necessary bye-laws under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 to allow it to establish its register. 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 the issue of...

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following:"acknowledges:— that timely access by patients to emergency care and improving waiting times in Emergency Departments (EDs) continues to be a primary focus of Government policy; — that the demand for emergency services is growing in line with overall population growth (1% per...

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: While we are focusing on trolley numbers, we must not lose sight of the importance of effective management of waiting lists because, as we know, today's cancelled operations are potentially tomorrow's emergency department presentations. The health service must balance planned and emergency care needs to prevent delays in diagnosing or treating illness which could result in greater needs for...

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I will just be two minutes more, if that is okay. For the outpatient waiting list, the number of people waiting over 15 months fell by 54%. Of course we cannot compare outpatient waiting times with those of the last Government, as those involved chose not to count or include them in official figures, even though they account for three quarters of all those waiting. Concerted efforts...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The agreement at the Workplace Relations Commission with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation on 14 December, 2015 provided for consideration of pay rates for fourth year student nurses undertaking the 36 week clinical placement. Consideration was to be progressed under the terms of a 'Chairman's Note' to the Lansdowne Road Agreement, these terms extended to include broader potential...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy will be aware that it would be inappropriate for me to comment other than to acknowledge with regret the distress and upset the family have experienced throughout this difficult time. With regard to specific complaints in relation to experiences of individuals in our hospitals, there is a formal complaints policy, entitled “Your Service Your Say”, details of which are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to specific complaints in relation to experiences of individuals in our hospitals, there is a formal complaints policy, entitled “Your Service Your Say”, details of which are on the HSE website, at:. In accordance with this procedure, a complaint must be made in the first instance to the hospital in which the incident causing the complaint occurred. If an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: A model of care is being developed by the National Clinical Programme for Rheumatology and that this will determine the service developments and associated personnel requirements which will best support the needs of patients requiring Rheumatology treatments. As the specific questions raised by the Deputy are matters for the Health Service Executive; I have therefore asked the HSE to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE and Dublin City Council jointly commissioned an independent review of pre-hospital emergency care services in the greater Dublin area. The purpose of this review is to determine the optimal and most cost effective model of ambulance provision for the city. The review is expected to be completed shortly and its recommendations will be considered in the context of the ongoing reform and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (14 Jan 2016)

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 scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (14 Jan 2016)

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: HSE Investigations (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I wish to express my sympathies to the family of the person concerned. The Deputy will appreciate that it would not be appropriate for me to comment further at this time. With regard to the information sought by the Deputy, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (19 Jan 2016)

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 scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I convened the ED Taskforce in December 2014 to provide focus and momentum in dealing with the challenges presented by ED overcrowding. Last April, the HSE published the ED Taskforce Action Plan, with a range of time-defined actions to: (i) optimise existing hospital and community capacity; (ii) develop internal capability and process improvement and (iii) improve leadership, governance,...