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Written Answers — Department of Health: Universal Health Insurance Provision (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I have established a three-year Research Programme in Healthcare Reform with the ESRI. The research programme uses economic analysis to explore issues in relation to health services and health spending as well as population health. The analysis is informed by the international literature and Irish evidence and has the potential to: - assess the economic implications of policy choices in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: All Government Departments and Agencies funded from the Exchequer must comply with EU Directives and national guidelines on procurement. Procurement of light bulbs, fluorescent tubes and such like items in the health care sector is a service matter. Therefore your question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (7 Oct 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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (7 Oct 2014)

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

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: A core objective of the National Drugs Strategy is to develop a national treatment and rehabilitation service that provides drug free and harm reduction approaches for problem substance users and to encourage problem substance users to engage with, and avail of, such services. In the area of treatment and rehabilitation, the focus is on providing opportunities for people to progress from drug...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (7 Oct 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: Hospital Appointment Delays (7 Oct 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: HSE Staffing (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The Government has decided that the numbers employed across the public service must be reduced in order to meet fiscal and budgetary targets and introduced a moratorium on recruitment in the Public Service in March 2009. The health sector must make its contribution to that reduction. In order to mitigate the impact on frontline services of the reduction in employment numbers, the priority...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Reports (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: In July this year the Government announced a comprehensive response to the long standing and sensitive issue for around 350 women who have undergone surgical symphysiotomy. The key response is the establishment of an ex-gratia payment scheme, which will cost around €34million. In addition, there is a commitment to the continued provision of medical services, including medical cards...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Narcolepsy Issues (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE and the Department of Education and Skills continue to provide 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: As with all capital projects the acute sector infrastructure programme must be considered within the overall capital envelope available to the health service. There will always be more projects than can be funded by the Exchequer. There is limited funding available for new projects over the next multi-annual period 2015-2019 given the level of commitments and the costs to completion already...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (7 Oct 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: Health Services Access (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: Cancer services have been reorganised in line with best practice to ensure that patients are treated in locations that have the expertise, multi-disciplinary specialist skills and case volume to provide optimum treatment. Oesophageal cancer is treated in four approved centres designated by the HSE-National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) for the treatment of this highly complex condition. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Coverage (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: This matter is sub-judice and I am therefore restricted in the response I can give to your question. My role as Minister for health primarily relates to national policy decisions, legislation, implementing the programme for government and securing an overall budget for health and accounting for it to the Oireachtas.  I am in no way personally involved in decisions about individual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Coverage (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: This matter is sub-judice and I am therefore restricted in the response I can give to your question. My role as Minister for health primarily relates to national policy decisions, legislation, implementing the programme for government and securing an overall budget for health and accounting for it to the Oireachtas.  I am in no way personally involved in decisions about individual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (7 Oct 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.

Written Answers — Department of Health: IBEC Membership (7 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The information in relation to agencies under the remit of my Department is currently being collated and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is collated.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Indemnity Scheme (2 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The Clinical Indemnity Scheme (CIS) covers the clinical activities of public health doctors, nurses, dentists and other community based clinical staff providing services on behalf of the Health Services Executive (HSE). Apart from this Scheme, the Clinical Indemnity Scheme does not provide indemnity to healthcare professionals who are providing private services in the community (i.e. those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (2 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 133 and 134 together. My Department has been informed by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) that it supported discussions between the Health Service Executive, Beaumont Hospital and Cork University Hospital which resulted in the publication in 2010 of Guidelines for the Management of a Patient with a Sub arachnoid Haemorrhage. Governance of...