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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: Activity Based Funding (ABF) is a new model for funding public hospital care which was introduced in 2016. It involves moving away from inefficient block grant budgets to a new system where hospitals are paid for the volume and quality of care provided, subject to a budgetary limit. Each Hospital in the Programme is allocated an ABF budget and a set of activity targets. These can be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 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. In relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services Provision (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: The Breast Cancer Service at Letterkenny University Hospital operates as a satellite centre of University Hospital Galway. The service is run by a single consultant who also undertakes general surgery at the hospital, and it is augmented by locum consultants and by Galway-based Saolta consultants who travel to carry out clinics in Letterkenny to meet needs arising. At present, efforts...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 844 to 853, inclusive, together. As this is a service matter, I have forwarded your request to the HSE who will respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: It was indicated upon the enactment of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 that an appropriate transition period would be required in order to carry out significant preparatory work to facilitate a seamless transition to the new regulatory framework laid out in the Act. That work is underway, involving officials from my Department. It is intended that Parts 2 and 3 will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 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: Occupational Therapy (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: As the Deputy's question refers specifically to the HSE it has been forwarded to them for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medical devices in the community drug schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. Where a supplier wishes to have a product reimbursed in the community drugs schemes, it must first submit an application to the HSE to have the product added to the reimbursement list. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 May 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 National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme Data (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 868 to 870, inclusive, and 872 and 873 together. The Health Service Executive (HSE) was guided on all aspects of the pandemic influenza vaccination campaign by the Pandemic Expert Influenza Group and the National Immunisation Advisory Committee. I have been informed by the HSE that they had contracts in place for the provision of pandemic vaccine, with Baxter...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 May 2017)

Simon Harris: The first reports of a link between pandemic influenza vaccination and narcolepsy came in the second half of 2010. In August 2010, the Swedish pharmacovigilance authority reported that it was investigating six cases of narcolepsy reported by health care professionals as a possible adverse event following the use of Pandemrix vaccine, used during the H1N1 2009 pandemic. This was followed...