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Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Mar 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. As the person in question resides in County Offaly, my Department has requested the chief officer of the executive's midland area to...

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 71, 72 and 74 together. The national treatment purchase fund, NTPF, which is now a statutory body, is charged with responsibility for arranging treatment for those patients waiting longest for admission to hospital. To date, the NTPF has arranged treatment for some 27,000 patients. My Department has asked the chief executive of the NTPF to reply directly to...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Mar 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, the Mater Hospital and Temple Street Children's Hospital are provided under an arrangement with the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The Health Act 2004 provided for the Health Service Executive, HSE, 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 audiology services. The former Eastern Regional Health Authority conducted a pilot project to...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: I have received the correspondence referred to by the Deputy and I will reply to the association shortly. 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...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Mar 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. As the person in question resides in Dublin, my Department has requested the chief officer for the executive's eastern regional area to...

Written Answers — General Practitioners: General Practitioners (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: Under the Medical Practitioners Act 1978, the Medical Council is the statutory body charged with primary responsibility for the registration and regulation of medical practitioners. Doctors wishing to practice medicine in Ireland, including those wishing to establish themselves in general practice, should be registered with the Medical Council. UK and other EU trained doctors with the...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff. : Health Service Staff. (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: Under the Medical Practitioners Act 1978, the Medical Council is the statutory body charged with primary responsibility for the regulation and registration of medical practitioners. All doctors wishing to practise medicine in this country should be registered with the Medical Council. The Medical Council sets out the relevant qualifications, training and experience required for registration....

Written Answers — Hospital Staff. : Hospital Staff. (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The issue raised is a matter for An Bord Altranais, the statutory body responsible for the regulation of the nursing and midwifery profession. Part V of the Nurses Act 1985 provides for fitness to practise procedures. The Minister for Health and Children has no involvement in fitness to practise inquiries, other than to receive notification from the board in accordance with section 46 of the...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 83 to 85, inclusive, 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 services at Cavan and...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities. : Services for People with Disabilities. (24 Mar 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 disability services. The Minister for Finance, in his 2005 budget, made available additional funding of...

Written Answers — Independent Reviews: Independent Reviews (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The report of the panel established by the former Minister for Health and Children to carry out an independent review of the circumstances surrounding the death of Róisín Ruddle was submitted to me on 7 February 2005 and it was published on my Department's website on Thursday, 10 February. The panel's principal finding was that if Róisín's operation had gone ahead as planned on 30 June...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: As indicated in the Health Service Executive's organisational design, the local health offices will be key units of delivery for its primary community and continuing care directorate. Each local health office will be located within the existing 32 community care offices. At present there is a general manager assigned with responsibility for managing all community based services from these...

Written Answers — National Cancer Strategy: National Cancer Strategy (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The national cancer forum is currently finalising a new national cancer strategy which is expected to be completed in the summer. The national cancer forum, a multi-disciplinary group of experts in cancer care, has conducted an extensive consultation process with professional bodies, voluntary organisations and the general public. In developing an organisational model for the delivery of...

Written Answers — Debt Collection: Debt Collection (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The management and control of the application of patient charges, together with the collection of outstanding debts, is a matter for individual hospitals, including voluntary hospitals, and for the Health Service Executive in its role in managing and delivering health and personal social services. My Department has, therefore, passed the Deputy's question to the chief officer of each of...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: I proppose to take Questions Nos. 15, 101 and 111 together. I am committed to the national roll out of a cervical screening programme in line with international best practise. International evidence demonstrates the proven efficacy of programmes that are effectively managed and meet quality assurance standards. Careful planning and consultation with relevant professional and advocacy...

Written Answers — Hospital Inquiry: Hospital Inquiry (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: On 9 March last I met representatives of Patient Focus, an advocacy group which represents, inter alia, former patients of Dr. Michael Neary. The group has requested the establishment of a redress board to process complaints relating to the provision of services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital to a number of its members. I advised the group that I was sympathetic in principle to the proposal...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 19, 30, 61 and 133 together. I am confident that the target date of 2007 for the expansion of BreastCheck nationally will be met. The national breast screening programme commenced in 2000 and currently covers the eastern, north eastern, midland and parts of the south eastern areas of the country. Screening is being offered free of charge to all women in those...

Written Answers — Ministerial Appointments: Ministerial Appointments (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: The Interim Health Service Executive, iHSE, awarded a contract to PricewaterhouseCoopers, PWC, following a tendering process, to manage the recruitment of the chief executive officer of the health service executive. In September 2004, Professor Aidan Halligan — deputy chief medical officer in the UK — was announced as the first chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive. In...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (23 Mar 2005)

Mary Harney: My Department does not collate data on the number of patients reported to be waiting in accident and emergency departments for admission to hospital on a daily basis. However, the Health Service Executive has commenced providing daily data on accident and emergency activity on their web site. My Department has asked the director of the national hospitals office-HSE to forward available...