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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Section 22 e) of the Consultant Contract 2008 states that a Consultant seeking to change from Type A, B or B* contract to a Type C contract should apply to the Consultant Applications Advisory Committee. In the event that the Type C Committee does not agree to the application, it is referred to the Director General of the Health Service for a final decision. Applications for a change of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 431 and 432 together. 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: Departmental Expenditure (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Department has availed of the services of public relations firms for some health promotion campaigns in areas like smoking cessation, alcohol awareness, men's health, obesity and breastfeeding. Work carried out by these companies included public awareness and communications campaigns, as well as advertising and consumer research. Details are set out as follows: Year Company...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (3 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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: A national group has been established in the HSE to review practices in the area of aids and appliances. This review will include policy and procedures applying to the provision of breast prostheses and bras for women who have had mastectomies. The Group will complete its work this year and it is expected that the implementation of its recommendations will lead to standardised procedures...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Legislation (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act provides that I, as the Minister for Health, must publish a report covering the operation of the Act in the preceding year by 30th June each year and lay it before the Houses of the Oireachtas. As the Act was commenced on 1st January 2014, the first annual report covering its operation will be published in June 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (3 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. In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Feb 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: Hospital Staff Recruitment (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform announced in budget 2014 that he intends 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, with its particular focus on a moratorium on recruitment and compliance with employment ceilings and targets, to one operating strictly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The applications for the Department's National Lottery Funding 2015 will be opening soon. I would encourage all organisations to complete a formal application form which along with detailed procedures will be available on the Department of Health's website at www.health.gov.ie. As the Deputy's question about a pilot scheme relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Open Disclosures Policy (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Measures are now in place and more are planned to foster and support a culture of open disclosure within the health service. A National Policy on Open Disclosure was developed jointly by the HSE and the State Claims Agency and launched by my predecessor in November 2013. The Policy is designed to ensure an open, consistent approach to communicating with patients and their families when...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I wish to thank the Deputy for the issue raised. The HSE have advised me that there were 12 mothers contracted for home births with the self employed community midwife prior to her suspension. All but one mother has delivered their baby. The HSE have also advised that self employed community midwives are facilitated to practice after signing a memorandum of understanding and a contract of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Labour Court issued a recommendation on the 13th January 2015 in respect of issues of over-crowding within the Accident and Emergency Department of Beaumont Hospital. In this context management at Beaumont Hospital will increase the number of nurses on day duty to 12 and the number of nurses on night duty to 11. As part of this additional compliment the Hospital will put in place a CNM2...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on the matter. If the Deputy has 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: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 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 (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If the Deputy has 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 Beds Data (3 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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staffing (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive (Financial Matters) Act 2014 provides for the disestablishment of the Health Service Executive’s Vote with effect from the 31 December 2014 and the funding of the Executive through the Vote of the Office of the Minister for Health. The Act also sets out the new statutory financial governance arrangements for the Health Service Executive. Under the new...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Obesity Strategy (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The National Task Force on Obesity completed its work in 2005. An Inter-Sectoral Group on Obesity, comprising relevant Government Departments and key stake-holders, was established early in 2009 to oversee and monitor implementation of the Task Force recommendations. Its report, published in April 2009, detailed the progress made on each of the 93 recommendations. It showed that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (3 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. In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service...