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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The consultant who undertook pancreas transplants at Beaumont Hospital retired at the end of 2014. While Beaumont Hospital is making every effort to recruit a suitable replacement, the hospital is also collaborating with St. Vincent’s University Hospital in relation to a combined approach to kidney/pancreas transplants. It is proposed that pancreas transplants, of which 6 were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Postcode System Implementation (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: All of the administrative systems in my Department have the capacity to record the new Eircode. All new stocks of preprinted stationery will include Eircode. The HSE specified the implementation of Eircode in the national Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) client database as a key priority in the HSE's National Service Plan 2015 and included its delivery in the Primary Care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE operates the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS) for persons entitled to treatment in another EU/EEA member state or Switzerland under EU Regulation (EC) No. 883/2004, as per the procedures set out in EU Regulations (EC) No. 987/2009, and in accordance with Department of Health Guidelines. Patients have the ability to apply to the HSE TAS seeking access to public healthcare outside the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (14 Jul 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. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Health care infrastructure projects support service delivery and are determined by the demands and pressures of the service to be delivered. There will always be more infrastructure projects than can be funded by the Exchequer and future developments must be prioritised for consideration within the context of the overall capital envelope available to the health service. A focused review of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Exchequer funding provided in 2015 provided a more realistic funding level for the health services and was very welcome as part of a two year programme to put the health services on a more sustainable financial footing. However, pressures are arising in a number of areas, particularly in relation to expenditure on acute hospital services, demand led schemes and legal settlements. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Consideration has in the past been given to the introduction of a levy on Sugar Sweetened Drinks. In 2012 the Department commissioned a Health Impact Assessment of a sugar sweetened drinks levy, which concluded that, "price increases tend to decrease demand but the degree to which this happens is variable because consumer behaviour and industry response to tax is difficult to predict"....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (14 Jul 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 Appointment Status (14 Jul 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. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (14 Jul 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: Hospitals Data (14 Jul 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: Medicinal Products Availability (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 547 and 548 together. 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 Appointment Status (14 Jul 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: Hospital Groups (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE has advised that the investigation of matters covered by the second Internal Audit Review are still under consideration and, accordingly, it would be inappropriate for me to comment on this matter at present.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (14 Jul 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 Waiting Lists (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Eight patients are currently on the active waiting list, 5 are awaiting a simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant and 3 are awaiting a pancreas only transplant. Of the 78 patients who have received a pancreas transplant, 28 are currently being reviewed in the Beaumont transplant clinic and the remainder are being managed by their consultant nephrologist. It is normal practice that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (14 Jul 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: Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times (14 Jul 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 Waiting Lists (14 Jul 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 (14 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 564 and 566 together. 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.