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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which once-off grants are paid to community and voluntary organisations providing a range of health related services. An organisation wishing to apply for National Lottery Funding must complete and submit a formal application. The application form and detailed procedures for applying are available on my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Mar 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I am pleased to say that additional funding is being made available in the HSE Service Plan for 2015 for the overall development of orthopaedic infrastructure nationally. This will support spinal surgery provision at Tallaght Hospital, emergency spinal surgery provision at the Mater Misericodiae University Hospital, and consultant orthopaedic surgeons at Galway and Cork. There is also...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Responsibilities (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The National Drugs Strategy 2009-2016 is a cross cutting area of public policy and service delivery which requires a coordinated response to tackling the drugs problem. As Minister for Health, I have overall responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy at Government level. The Oversight Forum on Drugs, which I chair, is responsible for the high-level monitoring of the Strategy, and solid...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 393 to 396, inclusive, together. I welcome the decision of the HSE to reinstate the clinical indemnity of the self-employed community midwife. The HSE is legally obliged to actively promote the wellbeing and welfare of the public. Decisions in this regard are made on a bona fide basis based on information available to the HSE at the time. I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As the deputy may be aware, my department is developing a National Maternity Strategy in conjunction with the HSE. The proposed strategy will set out policy direction for maternity services. As a first step, a review of national and international literature on the organisation and delivery of maternity services was commissioned by the department. That review examined inter aliamodels of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the queries raised by you, 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 Investigations (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Beaumont hospital is conducting an investigation into the very serious matter raised by the Deputy; they are liaising directly with the family involved and will inform them on the outcome of this investigation. The Deputy will be aware, of course, that it would be inappropriate for me to comment on ongoing investigations, other than to acknowledge with regret the distress and upset the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Communications (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I want to clarify that my speech to the Institute of Directors was not prepared by civil servants. I was invited to this event in my capacity as Minister for Health and this contributed to the fact that the speech was subsequently circulated by email in the normal way by the Department's Press and Communications Office. Both the Secretary General and I have given careful consideration to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: On 23 January 2015, my colleague, Minister Lynch and I published the priorities for the Department of Health for the period 2015-2017. Among the priority areas identified for the health sector is the commitment to “modernise health facilities”. This area encompasses a range of key actions, including the development of primary care centres. One of the measures being...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the 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 the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (10 Mar 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has not received any communication from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, indicating that they are opposed to the proposed changes with regard to call taking, dispatch and clinical governance of ambulance services in Dublin. The Deputy may wish to note that the need for such changes was identified by HIQA in their review of pre-hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Government regards the situation in Emergency Departments as unacceptable and acknowledges the difficulties that overcrowding in EDs causes for patients, their families and for the staff who are doing their utmost to provide safe, quality care in very challenging circumstances. All hospitals have escalation plans to manage not only patient flow but also patient safety in a responsive,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (10 Mar 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 with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: You will appreciate that it is contrary to the HSE Governance Act of 2013 for me to make a direction to the HSE or a hospital to benefit or prioritize any individual person or patient. The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: 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: Disease Management (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borelliosis, is an infection caused by a bacterium (Borrelia burgdorferi). It is transmitted to humans by bites from ticks infected with the bacterium. Lyme borelliosis was made statutorily notifiable in Ireland by the Infectious Diseases (Amendment Regulations) Regulations 2011. Lyme borelliosis is diagnosed by medical history and physical examination and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: 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: Hospital Appointment Status (10 Mar 2015)

Leo Varadkar: You will appreciate that is contrary to the Health Service Executive (Governance) Act 2013 for me to make a direction to the HSE or a hospital to benefit or prioritise any individual person or patient. 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...