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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Nov 2014)

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 they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The National Drugs Strategy 2009-2016 is a cross cutting area of public policy and service delivery. It is based on a co-ordinated approach across many Government Departments and Agencies in conjunction with the Community and Voluntary sectors and I intend that this approach will continue. The overall objective of the Strategy is to tackle the harm caused to individuals and society by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Nov 2014)

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 and Safety (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: Keeping your hands clean is the best way of preventing infection spreading in the home. Washing your hands with warm water and soap (preferably liquid soap) and drying them properly with a paper towel will remove pathogens and prevent them from moving anywhere else. Alcohol hand-rubs are useful in the home but they will not kill some pathogens. The HSE provides advice on its website for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I am happy to confirm to the Deputy that Connolly Hospital has already been considered as a location for the new children's hospital. Following the refusal of planning permission for the new children's hospital at the Mater campus in February 2012, the Minister for Health established a review group under the chairmanship of Dr Frank Dolphin to consider next steps. Connolly Hospital was one...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As the query raised is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to you. 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 Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

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. As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

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 specific case raised by the Deputy, as this is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the particular patient query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to him directly. 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 (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I wish to advise the Deputy that I have sought the information on matters raised in your question from the Nursing and Midwifery board of Ireland. I will reply in this regard in due course.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (4 Nov 2014)

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 they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (4 Nov 2014)

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. As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: My Department has no plans to issue iodine tablets. Matters concerning radiological events are a matter for the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) which comes under the aegis of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: Following allegations in 2012 against certain HSE and HSE funded crisis pregnancy counselling services the HSE undertook a Quality and Patient Safety Audit to provide assurance that the HSE and HSE funded services have appropriate arrangements in place. It is anticipated that the audit will be published as soon as the HSE has confirmation from An Garda Síochána and the Director of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Narcolepsy Issues (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE and the Department of Education and Skills are providing a range of services and supports to individuals diagnosed with narcolepsy following pandemic vaccination regardless of age, on an ex-gratia basis. These services and supports which are co-ordinated by the HSE National Advocacy Unit are intended to provide that individuals receive tailored assistance to address their specific...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: Exemptions from the statutory in-patient charge of €75 are listed in Statutory Instruments Nos. 116/1987 and 348/2003. Included among those exemptions are persons with full eligibility i.e. medical card holders, women receiving services in respect of motherhood and children up to the age of six weeks. No exemptions are provided in respect of in-patient charges for persons detained...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Coroners Service (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: My Department is not aware of the details of this case and is not routinely informed of Coroner's Inquests. I have asked the Health Service Executive for an update on this particular case and I will forward it to the Deputy as soon as I receive it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Hospital Visits (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I have not visited Beaumont Hospital yet. I paid a visit to Connolly Hospital on 23 July 2014 to officially open the Acute Medical Assessment Unit and the MRI Scanner. I also visited Roscommon Hospital on 27 September 2014. I do not currently have a formal schedule of hospital visits. However, it is my intention to visit different hospital sites as the opportunity arises.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the particular patient query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to him directly. 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: Midwifery Services (4 Nov 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I wish to advise the Deputy that I have sought the information on matters raised in your question from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. I will reply in this regard in due course.