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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Dec 2015)

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 (3 Dec 2015)

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: Accident and Emergency Departments (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Dublin Midlands Hospital Group is committed to securing and further developing the role of Portlaoise Hospital as a constituent hospital within the group. Substantial investment and enhancement measures have been put in place to ensure a safe level of services at the hospital. Some of its services are receiving significant investment. These include maternity, paediatric emergency triage,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ED overcrowding is a priority issue for the Government. Last December I convened the ED Taskforce to assist in dealing with the challenges presented by ED overcrowding. Significant progress has been made to date on the ED Taskforce implementation. Additional funding of €117 million has been provided in 2015 to relieve pressures on acute hospitals. In preparation for the 2015/16...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Charges for the maintenance element of long-stay in-patient services – which may include respite in-patient services and which apply to adults with full or limited eligibility – are provided for under the Health (Amendment) Act 2005 and the Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations 2005, as amended. Children under the age of 18 are exempt from these charges. On...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The University of Limerick Hospitals Group is committed to reducing waiting times for out-patient appointments, not only in University Hospital Limerick, but across the Hospital Group. An Outpatient Lead has been appointed to oversee the management of the waiting list, and improvements in waiting time performance are being achieved. The Group achieved the maximum permissible waiting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Dec 2015)

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: Health Services Provision (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The IBTS currently provides a haemochromatosis service at three centres, two in Dublin and one in Cork. The service is provided free of charge and, where patients meet all the normal blood donation criteria, they can become blood donors. Where a regular donor (someone who has donated within the previous two years) is diagnosed with haemochromatosis, they can continue to donate and have their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Dec 2015)

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: Health Care Professionals (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Physiotherapists Registration Board will soon make the necessary by-laws under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 to allow it to establish its register early next year. The title of physiotherapist will, as a consequence, be protected for the exclusive use of the board's registrants when the register's 2 year transitional period ends in 2018. I am currently examining...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme Eligibility (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The original Lourdes Hospital Redress Board was set up in 2007 as a response to the Lourdes Hospital Inquiry. The objective of the Redress Board was to provide compensation to women who were former patients of Dr Michael Neary, who had unnecessary obstetric hysterectomies and also to women under 40 years of age who had unnecessary bilateral oophorectomies, i.e. the removal of both ovaries or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the Health Service Executive to reply to the Deputy directly on this operational matter. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, he can contact my Private Office and the matter will be followed up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (3 Dec 2015)

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: Accident and Emergency Departments (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 179 and 180 together. Patients who have received hospital services and who require follow-on care in a hospital setting are provided with a scheduled appointment prior to their discharge from hospital. A patient requiring unscheduled services outside of hours may access those services through a hospital emergency department. It is a statutory provision...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: During my recent visit to Arranmore Island this issue was raised by the other Deputies in the area and by the Community Council. Any decision made by the Saolta University Health Care Group will be made with patient safety outcomes to the fore. However, 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Dec 2015)

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: Ambulance Service Data (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 191 together. With regard to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, 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 Admissions (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to the detailed queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, 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 (3 Dec 2015)

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: Regulation of Health and Social Care Professions (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Psychotherapists and counsellors are not currently regulated under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005. However, the Act provides that the Minister for Health may, by regulation, designate a health and social care profession not already designated if he or she considers that it is appropriate and in the public interest to do so and if specified criteria have been met. In...