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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: In order to address scoliosis service needs, funding was allocated in the HSE Service Plan in 2015 for additional consultant posts including two consultant orthopaedic surgeons, anaesthetist and support staff at Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin. These two orthopaedic surgeon posts will also support the service at Tallaght Hospital. Capital funding was also provided for a new...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Jan 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: Vaccinations Data (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 377 and 378 together. In Ireland, the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is the regulatory authority for medicines in Ireland. There are 2 licensed HPV vaccines available in Ireland (Gardasil and Cervarix). Gardasil is the vaccine used by the HSE in the School Immunisation Programme. At the start of the HSE’s schools immunisation programme in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (19 Jan 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 Procedures (19 Jan 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 Procedures (19 Jan 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 Services (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE sought tenders in November 2015 for the provision of a mobile follow-up mammography service for women from the Sligo/Leitrim area who have already received treatment for breast cancer. The tender process is currently ongoing and it is hoped that it will be concluded shortly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up on the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up on the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up on the matter with them

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff Grades (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: No internal promotion competitions have been completed in my Department since the introduction of the change in eligibility rules for such competitions. Therefore no Clerical Officer has been promoted to Higher Executive Officer and no Executive Officer has been promoted to Assistant Principal Officer.

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I will just be two minutes more, if that is okay. For the outpatient waiting list, the number of people waiting over 15 months fell by 54%. Of course we cannot compare outpatient waiting times with those of the last Government, as those involved chose not to count or include them in official figures, even though they account for three quarters of all those waiting. Concerted efforts...

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: While we are focusing on trolley numbers, we must not lose sight of the importance of effective management of waiting lists because, as we know, today's cancelled operations are potentially tomorrow's emergency department presentations. The health service must balance planned and emergency care needs to prevent delays in diagnosing or treating illness which could result in greater needs for...

Hospital Emergency Departments: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following:"acknowledges:— that timely access by patients to emergency care and improving waiting times in Emergency Departments (EDs) continues to be a primary focus of Government policy; — that the demand for emergency services is growing in line with overall population growth (1% per...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The agreement at the Workplace Relations Commission with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation on 14 December, 2015 provided for consideration of pay rates for fourth year student nurses undertaking the 36 week clinical placement. Consideration was to be progressed under the terms of a 'Chairman's Note' to the Lansdowne Road Agreement, these terms extended to include broader potential...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy will be aware that it would be inappropriate for me to comment other than to acknowledge with regret the distress and upset the family have experienced throughout this difficult time. With regard to specific complaints in relation to experiences of individuals in our hospitals, there is a formal complaints policy, entitled “Your Service Your Say”, details of which are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to specific complaints in relation to experiences of individuals in our hospitals, there is a formal complaints policy, entitled “Your Service Your Say”, details of which are on the HSE website, at:. In accordance with this procedure, a complaint must be made in the first instance to the hospital in which the incident causing the complaint occurred. If an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: A model of care is being developed by the National Clinical Programme for Rheumatology and that this will determine the service developments and associated personnel requirements which will best support the needs of patients requiring Rheumatology treatments. As the specific questions raised by the Deputy are matters for the Health Service Executive; I have therefore asked the HSE to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (14 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE and Dublin City Council jointly commissioned an independent review of pre-hospital emergency care services in the greater Dublin area. The purpose of this review is to determine the optimal and most cost effective model of ambulance provision for the city. The review is expected to be completed shortly and its recommendations will be considered in the context of the ongoing reform and...