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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital Administration (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 901 to 906, inclusive, and 921 together. The Deputy can be assured that there has been extensive engagement between my Department and the St Vincent's Healthcare Group (SVHG) over the last few weeks, to agree the mechanism by which the State investment in the new National Maternity Hospital, on the St Vincent's University Hospital campus, will be...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Infrastructure Provision (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Ireland is not unique in the participation of voluntary organisations, including those with religious involvement, in the delivery of publicly funded healthcare. However, it is proper that the frameworks within which service providers operate in delivering publicly funded health services are subject to on-going consideration. In recent years, the nature of the relationship between...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Awareness (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Lyme disease (also known as Lyme borreliosis) is an infection caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. It is transmitted to humans by bites from ticks infected with the bacteria. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) of the HSE has extensive information concerning Lyme disease on its website . Lyme disease is diagnosed by medical history and physical...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: The primary aim of developing a Trauma Policy will be to improve patient outcomes and lead to a reduction in preventable death and disability The future trauma system will build on the strengths of pre-hospital care, all of our acute hospitals and post-acute care and will require hospitals to work together to provide an optimal configuration of trauma services. The Steering Group has...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 915 to 917, inclusive, together. As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (Section 7 (2)) Order 2014 (SI 339 of 2014) HIQA is mandated to receive protected disclosures on all matters relating to the standards of safety and care of persons receiving health and social care services in the public and voluntary health care sectors and social care services in the case of the private health care sector, as provided for by the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: There is at present no statutory regulation of complementary therapists, including hypnotherapists, in Ireland. While complementary therapists are not subject to professional statutory regulation, they are subject to a range of legislation and regulation, similar to other practitioners including consumer legislation, competition, contract and criminal law. The report of the National...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Freedom of Information Requests (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: The Freedom of Information Act, 2014 provides for the decision-making functions in respect of FOI requests to be delegated, by the Head of the Department, to designated staff of the FOI Body. The Decision Maker assigned to your request will correspond with you in relation to it. In circumstances where a decision, in respect of an FOI request, does not issue within the legislative...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Your question has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply as the management of the healthcare property estate is a service matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (13 Jul 2017)
Simon Harris: As this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.