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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office who will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (14 Jan 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: Cancer Screening Programmes (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: CervicalCheck, the National Cervical Screening Programme, was introduced in 2008 and offers free smear tests to women aged 25-60. International best practice recommends that a population based cervical screening programme should target women aged from 25 or 30 years to 60 or 65 years. Invasive cervical cancer is extremely rare in women aged under 25, with less than 5 women in this age...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Groups (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 556 and 557 together. The Hospital Group Boards, which are being established on an administrative basis, will be required to oversee the effective planning, management and implementation of the integration of services across the Group to achieve an optimum, cohesive, high quality and safe service provision. They will also need to establish a process to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (14 Jan 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 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 563 to 565, inclusive, together. Scoliosis in children and young people is predominantly managed at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin (OLCHC). I am advised that at the end of last year, there were over 160 children in total waiting for spinal procedures. 104 children were waiting longer than 20 weeks and, of these, 51 were waiting longer...

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

Leo Varadkar: The HSE national Clinical Strategy and Programmes (CSPD) will commence the development of Integrated Care Programmes (ICPs) in 2015 to provide a framework to substantially improve and standardise patient care across the country. This framework for the management and delivery of health services will ensure that patients and clients receive high quality, evidence based care, delivered in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: BowelScreen, the National Bowel Screening Programme, commenced offering free bowel screening nationwide to men and women aged 60 to 69 years in late 2012. The first round of screening will have been offered to the full cohort in this age group by the end of 2015. The programme is focusing on those aged 60-69 years in the initial phase because this cohort stands to benefit most from bowel...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs-related Deaths (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The National Drug Related Deaths index is an epidemiological database administered by the Health Research Board which records cases of death by drug and/or alcohol poisoning and death among drug users and those who are alcohol dependent. The Health Research Board published a report on the National Drug-Related Deaths Index on 15 December 2014 which shows deaths up to 2012, the latest...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (14 Jan 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 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The national renal transplant team in Beaumont Hospital carry out all the kidney transplants in Ireland. The transplants are carried out by the Beaumont team at two locations - Beaumont Hospital for adults and the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street for paediatric patients up to the age of 19. 152 kidney transplants took place in Ireland in 2014, 40 of which involved...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jan 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: Disease Management (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 590 and 591 together. Lyme Disease (also known as Lyme borelliosis) is an infection caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium called Borella burgdorferi. It is transmitted to humans by bites from ticks infected with the bacteria. The infection is generally mild affecting only the skin, but can occasionally be more severe and highly debilitating. The commonest...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Remuneration (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply. 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: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: A new Nurses and Midwives Act was passed into legislation in 2011. The Act provides, inter alia, for the protection of the public in its dealings with nurses and midwives and the enhancement of their high standards of professional education and competencies. The Department of Health is responsible for oversight of the governance of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI). The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (14 Jan 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: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Jan 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: Departmental Bodies Data (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Four bodies, National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery, National Social Workers Qualifications Board, Children Acts Advisory Board and the Drug Treatment Centre Board have been dissolved since March 2011. The extent of savings varied between organisations and the majority of staff were redeployed to other public service bodies. Efficiencies resulted from...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Decentralisation Programme Data (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The only agency or section of the Department that was decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011 was the General Registrars Office which was decentralised from Department Offices in Lombard Street in Dublin 2 to Roscommon in April 2005. A total of €49,151.25 was spent between 1997 and 2011 on travel costs and expenses incurred by the staff involved in that decentralisation during...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (14 Jan 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.