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- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly. Please reply to the Deputy in this case.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has advised my Department that the NTPF tenders for procedures from its Panel of Private Hospitals. These procedures are all tendered as “packages of care”. Patients who are outsourced from their referring hospital to a private hospital for treatment are done so under the obligations of these...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Government and I are fully committed to developing a robust patient and family centred genetics and genomics service in Ireland and increasing genomic laboratory capabilities for the betterment of patient diagnostics and care. In 2016, the National Genetic and Genomic Medicine Network strategy group provided a report to the HSE. This report outlined the future of genetic and genomic...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. As self-employed practitioners, GPs may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond direct to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 387 and 470 to 472, inclusive, together. The expansion of the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening (NBS) Programme continues to remain a key objective of mine as Minister for Health, and I am pleased to note that the National Screening Advisory Committee (NSAC) has been actively progressing work in this regard. NSAC is an independent expert group that...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: In November 2022 the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) introduced Individual Donor Risk Assessment (IDRA) for all donors. IDRA has enabled the IBTS to ask the same health and lifestyle criteria questions to all existing and potential new donors. This means that any deferrals are applied based on the donor’s individual specific risk profile. To register to become a bone marrow...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The number of staff employed in the Drugs Policy Unit of the Department of Health at the end of each year from 2019-2023 and as of the end of May 2024 is documented in the below table. - December 2019 December 2020 December 2021 December 2022 December 2023 May 2024 Headcount 13 13 13 13...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 Jun 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.