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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (28 Apr 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. As the specific...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Apr 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: Primary Care Centres (28 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The development of primary care is central to the Government's objective to deliver a high quality, integrated and cost effective health care system. Primary care centres procured through a combination of public and private investment, will facilitate the delivery of multi-disciplinary primary health care. The mechanism and timescale for delivery of primary care infrastructure is dependent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (28 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 110 and 115 together. In relation 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 Waiting Lists (28 Apr 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. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Apr 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: Hospitals Funding (28 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for the stewardship and proper management of public funds granted to it for the provision of health and personal social services. Under Section 38 of the Health Act, 2004, the HSE may enter into agreements with provider organisations to deliver services on its behalf. In discharging its statutory duties and public accountabilities, the HSE has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (28 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The proposal to redevelop the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) on the St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH) campus has been under consideration and discussion for many years. In 2008, the KPMG, Independent Review of Maternity and Gynaecology Services in the Greater Dublin Area report, noted that Dublin’s model of stand-alone maternity hospitals did not align with the considered norm...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (28 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The EU Directive 2011/24/EU on Patients’ Rights in Cross Border Healthcare aims to ensure EU citizens may access safe and good quality healthcare services across EU borders. I am advised by the HSE that sixteen people from Co. Louth accessed care abroad under the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive in 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (28 Apr 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The ED Taskforce Implementation Group is overseeing the implementation of a range of initiatives to tackle ED overcrowding. These include: a) Measures to reduce the numbers of patients attending hospital A number of measures have been introduced to reduce the numbers of patients attending hospital, by improving access to primary and community care services. b) Measures to expand hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Apr 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 Appointments Status (28 Apr 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 Staff Data (4 May 2016)

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 on the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (4 May 2016)

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: Hospital Services (4 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (4 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE has responsibility for the provision and operation of Primary Care Centres. Therefore, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this issue. 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: Ambulance Service (4 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The National Ambulance Service has undertaken a major programme of reform in recent years, to reconfigure the management and delivery of pre-hospital care services, for a clinically driven, nationally co-ordinated system, supported by improved technology. A core part of this programme has been the rationalisation of the NAS command and control function from local regional centres to one...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (4 May 2016)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (4 May 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 Appointments Delays (4 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: As the specific issues raised are a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days he should contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.