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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The removal of private practice from public hospitals is a core principle of Sláintecare, ensuring that public healthcare facilities are used for public patients only, and that public patients can access public hospitals based on clinical need. A roadmap to support this policy direction will be developed during the course of the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy & Action...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 633 and 634 together. As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As of 1stFebruary 2022, 1,539,900 held eligibility for a medical card while an additional 526,825 held eligibility for a GP visit card. This means that 2,066,725 held eligibility for free GP Services, over 41% of the current population. According to most recent CSO statistics, Ireland's total population was estimated to be 5,011,500. As such, if a measure to introduce universal GP care...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: Several analyses have been undertaken to estimate the future demands for GP capacity, and the related GP expenditure, across a number of eligibility scenarios including universal GP care without charges. The HSE report on Medical Workforce Planning Future Demand for General Practitioners 2015-2025provides estimates on the additional demand for GPs and the training numbers necessary to meet...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As per the Programme for Government, the Government is committed to increasing access to GP care without charges for more children, an important healthcare measure that will remove a potentially prohibitive cost barrier to accessing GP care and will help to improve children’s health as they develop. Budget 2022 provides for the initial stage of this phased expansion, the provision...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners who hold contracts with the HSE to provide services under various public health schemes; there are no plans at present to directly employ GPs. Any proposed model involving salaried GP positions would require careful consideration to ensure the required level of service could be provided for medical card and GP visit card holders. The 2019 GP Agreement on...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The HSE takes several factors into consideration when making its annual assessment of the number and type of specialist training places required within each specialty including but not limited to, future medical workforce planning projections, the number currently in training and the training capacity within the health system. Targeted increases across a number of specialist training...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: GP training is in the main four years in duration. Those undertaking GP training through the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) pathway in Medicine & Emergency medicine complete training in 3 years. Those undertaking the RPL Paediatric pathway complete in 3 years 8 months. The intake to GP Training has increased from 159 in 2015 to 258 places available in 2022, this is...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: Sections 12 and 13 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 empower the Minister for Health to make Regulations on the labelling of alcohol products and the content of advertising respectively. Work on commencement of these sections of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act was suspended throughout 2020 and much of 2021 due to resources being diverted to COVID-19 related areas; that work...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly by the 8th March 2022.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The information requested by the Deputy is publicly available on the website of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, www.ntpf.ie
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Mar 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.