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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The amount received by the Department of Health and Children in respect of health contributions in 2003 and 2004 was €855.938 million and €950.52 million, respectively. The 2005 estimated receipt from health contributions, as published in the 2005 Revised Estimates Volume, for the Vote for the Health Service Executive, Vote 40 is €1,005.924 million. The Estimate for 2005 has not been...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The casemix adjusted base price for inpatients and day cases is the average cost of a case when all national data has been aggregated. The national base price is the national cost of treating a standard case with a complexity of 1. Data on the national average base price for inpatients and day cases is detailed in the attached table. The data sought by the Deputy, which is based on audited...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (2 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The General Register Office in Roscommon is the only section of the Department of Health and Children that is based outside Dublin. The decentralisation of the office has been completed. Some 52 people are based in the Roscommon office.

Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: There is a common list of reimbursable medicines for the general medical services and drug payment schemes. This list ensures equity between the schemes in relation to the range of medicines paid for by the State. The list is reviewed and amended monthly, as new products become available and deletions are notified. For an item to be included on the common list, it must comply with a published...

Written Answers — Health Services. : Health Services. (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, Comhairle na n-Ospidéal was dissolved on the day the Health Service Executive was established and the functions of comhairle have been transferred to the Health Service Executive. My Department has therefore requested the interim chief executive of the Health Service...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: It is my intention that the recommendations of the report of the Commission on Financial Management and Control Systems in the Health Service, or the Brennan report, relating to the treatment of patients in our public hospitals will be progressed in the context of the negotiation of a new consultant contract and I am anxious to get these negotiations under way as soon as possible. However, as...

Written Answers — Hospital Hygiene: Hospital Hygiene (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: Improving the standards of cleanliness in hospitals is a priority. One of the specific actions identified in the ten point plan to improve the delivery of accident and emergency services refers to the need to address this particular issue. Effective infection control measures, including environmental cleanliness and hand hygiene, are central to the control of hospital acquired infections, or...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: Capital funding for the health service is now largely provided through the Health Service Executive in line with the capital investment framework 2005-09. This amounts to €564 million in 2005. I am awaiting further clarification from the HSE of certain non-capital funding issues. The provision of the additional 19 beds at Wexford General Hospital will be considered in this context.

Written Answers — Departmental Programmes: Departmental Programmes (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, established on 1 January 2005, to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for progressing the bulk of the health capital programme in 2005 and in future years. The total capital provision for the health service, as announced earlier this year...

Written Answers — Departmental Publications: Departmental Publications (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The information requested is being collated by my Department and will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Services at Beaumont Hospital are provided under an arrangement with the executive. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Nursing Education: Nursing Education (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The issue raised by the Deputy is a matter for An Bord Altranais, the statutory body charged with the regulation of the nursing and midwifery professions, including the setting of requirements and standards relating to the education programmes for registration. Membership of the board is representative of all divisions of the register of nurses. I understand that the board decided at a recent...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the provision of ambulance services. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer of the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for services at the County Hospital, Roscommon. My Department has requested the chief officer for the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for services at the Portiuncula Hospital, County Galway. My Department has requested the chief officer for...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the assessment of applications for medical cards. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief...

Written Answers — Occupational Therapists: Occupational Therapists (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The Deputy may wish to note that three new occupational therapy courses commenced in the 2003-04 academic year in University College Cork, the National University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Limerick. In total, these courses provide an additional 75 training places in occupational therapy. This expansion in training numbers has been identified in the report commissioned by my...

Written Answers — Hospital Charges: Hospital Charges (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: I presume the Deputy is referring to charges raised on foot of the Health (In-Patient Charges) Regulations 1987, S I 116 of 1987. Where a person is maintained as an inpatient for a single period of more than one day, no account shall be taken of the final day. The effect of this is that the charge applies per day with no charge for the day of discharge or, effectively, the charge applies per...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: : The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, which was established on 1 January 2005. Under the Act, the executive has the responsibility to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. This includes responsibility for the arrangement of office accommodation for staff within the HSE, including the former General Medical...

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (31 May 2005)

Mary Harney: The general medical services contract which general practitioners participating in the GMS scheme hold with the local area of the Health Service Executive provides for the issue of first and final certificates to explain work absence, free of charge for medical card holders, regardless of age. General practitioners are not obliged to provide examinations and certificates in respect of...