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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy Staff (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly on this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly on this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly on this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly on this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly on this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly on this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to reply to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: 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 Waiting Lists Data (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 896 and 924 together. Improving waiting times for hospital procedures is a key commitment in the Programme for Government and in 2018 €50 million was allocated to the NTPF to provide treatment for patients. The recently launched Inpatient/Day Case Action Plan outlines the combined impact of HSE and National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) activity in...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to you directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: The National Waiting List Management Policy, a standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2014, has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 902 and 938 together. The Government approved the drafting of a Bill on assisted human reproduction (AHR) and associated areas of research in October last year. The General Scheme is published on my Department’s website. In addition, the Joint Committee on Health is currently conducting a review of the General Scheme of the Assisted Human...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Deaths (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: As this is a service issue, I have asked the HSE to reply to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Negligence Cases (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 904 and 905 together. The management of clinical negligence claims arising from the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients in public healthcare enterprises is delegated to the State Claims Agency which has a statutory mandate to investigate and manage these cases to completion. My officials have been advised by the Agency that it...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: Improving waiting times for hospital procedures is a key commitment in the Programme for Government and in 2018 €50 million was allocated to the NTPF to provide treatment for patients. The recently launched Inpatient/Day Case Action Plan outlines the combined impact of HSE and National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) activity in 2018. Under the Plan, the NTPF will provide 20,000...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Information and Communications Technology (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: ICT spending is composed of Capital and Revenue but excludes staff costs. Please note that international comparisons on information technology expenditure are difficult for a variety of reasons due to the different health system arrangements across European and OECD countries. The 2018 national service plan set out an overall budget of over €14.5 billion for the HSE of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 916 and 917 together. GMS contractors receive a range of capitation rates, fee per service payments and practice supports.It is not possible to definitively calculate the cost of universal GP access given the wide range of payments and variables that have to be accounted for. Such a calculation would require a complex and detailed modelling exercise to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (12 Jun 2018)
Simon Harris: In relation to the cost of medical card provision to all persons with a disability that do not currently qualify it is noted that the data required to model this is not available and it is therefore not possible to produce an estimate of the cost of such a proposal. Medical card provision is primarily based on financial assessment. In accordance with the provisions of the Health...