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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Feb 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: Health Services Staff Recruitment (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I expect the new pay scales for new entrant consultants agreed between Management and the IMO at the LRC on 7th January 2015 will help us to keep more of our medical graduates at home and persuade consultants who are working overseas to return to Ireland. I want this new package to send a strong message to Irish medical graduates that pay and also working conditions are improving again and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the particular patient query raised by you, 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 Waiting Lists (25 Feb 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: Organ Donation (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I am advised by the HSE that all donated organs are utilised to maximum clinical benefit for Irish patients. Beaumont Hospital, one of the three transplant centres, is facing some challenges in the recruitment of transplant surgeons to fill current vacancies. Highly trained transplant surgeons can be difficult to locate and the hospital continues to carry out an international...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: 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 earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. The Special Delivery Unit (SDU) Protocol: The Management of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (25 Feb 2015)

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: Residential Institutions Data (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 128 and 129 together. I am advised by the Minister for Justice and Equality that the scheme of ex gratia payments to women who were admitted to and worked in the Magdalen laundries and two similar institutions is still open and will be for the foreseeable future. In view of this, it is difficult to estimate the final number of participants in the redress...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 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: International Agreements (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In February 2012, H.E. Mr. CHEN Zhu, Minister of Health of the People's Republic of China extended an invitation to visit China to James Reilly, the then Minister for Health. Minister Reilly visited China from 13 to 19 August 2012. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on health co-operation between the Department of Health of Ireland and the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Feb 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: Health Services Funding (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy. 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. I met with the Irish Osteoporosis Society (IOS) on Monday 23 February 2015....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Infrastructure (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Despite constraints on our capital and revenue budgets in recent years, a very ambitious infrastructure programme is under way to support the provision of an enhanced and a more integrated range of health care services. Details of the infrastructure to be completed in 2015 and which will become operational this year or in early 2016 are set out in Appendix 4 of the HSE’s National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (25 Feb 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: Medicinal Products Prices (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Decisions on pricing and reimbursement of pharmaceutical products within public health systems are a national competence for EU Member States. However, the issue of pricing and reimbursement of medicines has been the subject of recent discussion at an EU level. The Council of the European Union issued conclusions in December 2014 on the issue of innovation for the benefit of patients...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced in budget 2014 that he intended to delegate greater autonomy to Departments and Agencies to manage their own staffing levels. The change from the application of a rigid employment control framework to one operating strictly within allocated pay frameworks allows for recruitment where it is determined that this can achieve more...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (25 Feb 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: Hospitals Building Programme (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE is developing a substantial infrastructure project at Naas General Hospital which includes an endoscopy unit. The proposed project will be a two storey build. The oncology unit and the physical medicine department which includes physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy will be accommodated on the ground floor adjacent to the main concourse and out-patients. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Benefit Scheme (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The EU Directive on Patients’ Rights in Cross-Border Healthcare (Directive 2011/24) provides rules for the reimbursement to patients of the cost of receiving treatment abroad, where the patient would be entitled to such treatment in their home Member State and supplements the rights that patients already have under EU Regulation 883/04 on the co-ordination of social security schemes....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (25 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Special Action Group on Obesity (SAGO) has been established, comprising representatives from the Department of Health, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, the Department of Education and Skills, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and safefood to examine and progress a number of issues to address the problem of obesity, in both adults and children. The Special Action Group on...