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- 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 May 2016)
Leo Varadkar: As this is 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (4 May 2016)
Leo Varadkar: The Ballymote Primary Care Centre project is one of 14 to be delivered as a single PPP project. Following a detailed tender evaluation process the National Development Finance Agency announced the Prime-Balfour Beatty consortium as the preferred tenderer in May 2015. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2016 and it is expected that the primary care centres will be delivered in 2017. In...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (4 May 2016)
Leo Varadkar: In relation to the detailed queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (4 May 2016)
Leo Varadkar: The Emergency Department Taskforce Implementation Group has met on a regular basis during 2015 and into 2016, and recently met on the 18th April 2016. The Group has been overseeing initiatives to address ED overcrowding and ED performance, particularly over this peak winter period. Measures implemented included optimising discharges in advance of the weekends, strengthening the senior...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 May 2016)
Leo Varadkar: Improving waiting times for scheduled care for patients is a key priority. In January 2015, I put in place maximum permissible waiting times for in-patient and day case treatment and outpatient appointments of 18 months by 30 Jun 2015 and 15 months by year end. The HSE was provided with additional funding to ensure that these maximum waiting times would be achieved by maximising capacity...
- 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 Waiting Lists (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 National...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (4 May 2016)
Leo Varadkar: Prescription charges are part of a set of measures introduced by Government in recent years to reduce pharmaceutical drugs expenditure. Medical card holders are required to pay a prescription charge of €2.50 per item for medicines and other prescription items supplied to them by community pharmacists, subject to a cap of €25 per month for each person or family. Prescription...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (4 May 2016)
Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 166 and 167 together. The Long Term Illness (LTI) Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act, 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975 specifying the conditions covered by the LTI Scheme, which are as follows: acute leukaemia; mental handicap; cerebral palsy; mental illness (in a person under 16); cystic fibrosis;...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 May 2016)
Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, he can contact my Private Office and they will follow the matter up with the HSE.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (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: 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 Staff Recruitment (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 Waiting Lists (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 National...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 May 2016)
Leo Varadkar: The Emergency Department Taskforce Implementation Group has been overseeing initiatives to address ED performance and overcrowding. These initiatives include optimising discharges in advance of the weekends, strengthening the senior decision making presence at wards and in EDs, increased access to diagnostics and securing staff to open overflow areas. During 2015, additional funding of...