Results 22,341-22,360 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 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 provision of health centres. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...
- Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: My Department has asked the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy in connection with the original information requested and to investigate why a response did not issue to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 8 July 2004. The Health Service Executive has recently established a parliamentary affairs division. A key function of this division involves the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: Responsibility for the collection and reporting of waiting lists and waiting times now falls within the remit of the national treatment purchase fund, NTPF. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the NTPF to reply to the Deputy directly with the information requested.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The health strategy committed to making improvements in the income guidelines in order to increase the number of persons on low incomes who are eligible for medical cards and to give priority to families with children. Income limits for medical card eligibility increased in the years between 2002 and 2004 in line with the annual consumer price index. Both the income guidelines and income...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 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 employment of consultants. Accordingly, my Department has requested the national director of human...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 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 health service staffing. Accordingly, my Department has requested the national director of human...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 183 and 187 together. 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 hospital services at Naas...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 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 health service staffing. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 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 provision of health centres. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief officer for the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The strategy, Primary Care: A New Direction, sets out the Government's broad vision for the development of primary care as the central focus for the delivery of health and personal social care services in a modern health system. The strategy aims to shift the emphasis from the current over-reliance on acute hospital services to one where patients will have direct access to an integrated...
- Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, is a resistant form of staphylococcus aureus. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, collects data on MRSA bacteraemia, also known as bloodstream infection or "blood poisoning", as part of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System, EARSS. At national level, MRSA bacteraemia is now included â since 1 January 2004...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Publicly Funded Acute Hospitals In-Patient Beds and Day Places 1990 and 2004 Type of Bed 1990 2004 In-Patient 11,868 12,329 Day 284 1,080 Total 12,152 13,409 Source: 1990 â Health Statistics Report 1990, Department of Health â Bed Complement Source: 2004 â Integrated...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The funding provided in respect of the national treatment purchase fund in the years 2002 to 2004 was â¬79.069 million. The allocation available to the fund in 2005 is â¬64 million.
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: According to the most recent Health Service Executive-employer representative division survey of nursing resources, recruitment remains well ahead of resignations and retirements. Employers reported that 765 vacancies existed at 31 December 2004. The vacancy rate now stands at 2.25%. This could be considered to be a normal frictional rate, given that there will always be some level of...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (11 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. Accordingly, my Department has requested the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive to reply to the Deputy directly.
- Cancer Screening Programme. (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: On prostate screening,I took the recommendation from the Cancer Forum. It states that there is currently insufficient evidence to recommend the introduction of a population based prostate screening programme in this country. It goes on to state that this is in line with EU recommendations and that one must introduce cancer screening programmes which have demonstrated their efficacy having...
- Hospital Staff. (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: According to the most recent Health Service Executive, employer representative division survey of nurse resources, recruitment remains well ahead of resignations and retirements. Employers reported that 765 vacancies existed at 31 December 2004. The vacancy rate now stands at 2.25%. This could be considered to be a normal frictional rate, given that there will always be some level of movement...
- Hospital Staff. (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: Some 819 additional nurses were employed last year, many of whom replaced people who retired. CSO statistics indicate that there are 12.2 nurses per 1,000 people in this country. Bord Altranais registration figures indicate that there are more than 15 nurses per 1,000 people. In the EU, the ratio is 8.5 nurses per 1,000 people and in Britain the figure is nine nurses per 1,000 of the...
- Health Care Strategy. (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The strategy, Primary Care: A New Direction, sets out the Government's broad vision for the development of primary care as the central focus for the delivery of health and personal social care services in a modern health system. The strategy aims to shift the emphasis from the current over-reliance on acute hospital services so patients will have direct access to an integrated...
- Health Care Strategy. (11 May 2005)
Mary Harney: The cost at the time of publication was â¬1.2 billion. Further costs were estimated to amount to a couple of hundred million euro per annum. We do not have these resources at present. We are increasing spending on health by 10.8%, or 8.5% in real terms. In the United Kingdom, the previous Government advocated a target of 6% growth in spending. It said it hoped to achieve it during its...