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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Information in respect of patients on Outpatient (OPD), Inpatient & Daycase (IPDC), and GI Scope waiting lists is published monthly broken down by hospital and specialty, by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) on its website: The information is now being made available through an interactive visual tool which provides users with a much-improved way of accessing and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Cancer Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Thank you, Deputy, for your question. I recognise the importance of providing the best care to cancer patients which can include new and innovative medicines. The State encourages all pharmaceutical companies to apply for pricing and reimbursement of their oncology drugs as soon as marketing authorisation is granted by the European Medicines Agency. Between 2021 and 2024 €645...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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 (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I would like to thank the Deputy for his question and the opportunity to draw attention to Injury Units and the work that they do. In 2012, the Emergency Medicine Programme (EMP) recommended the establishment of Injury Units (IUs) in Model 2 Hospitals to provide unscheduled emergency care for patients with non life threatening or limb threatening injuries, as conveniently as possible, while...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Medicinal Products (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on the pricing and reimbursement of medicines. This arises from the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. The Act provides a rigorous process for the assessment of new medicines for reimbursement. This enables taxpayers to be confident that the right medicines are chosen, at a sustainable price. However, price is not the only...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Deputy is aware, the HSE has proposed a process of planned service changes at Our Lady's Hospital Navan and has advised that these changes are necessary to support safe service delivery on a sustained basis and are driven first and foremost by patient safety considerations. Services are being enhanced in Our Lady’s Hospital Navan under a number of different national health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have asked the HSE, as Sponsoring Agency with day-to-day responsibility for the delivery of the new elective hospitals, to respond to you directly in relation to the matters raised.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I have asked the HSE, as Sponsoring Agency with day-to-day responsibility for the delivery of the new elective hospitals to respond to you directly in relation to the matters raised.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Under the Health Act 1970, eligibility for a medical card is primarily based on means. The Act obliges the HSE to assess whether a person is unable, without undue hardship, to arrange general practitioner services for himself or herself and his or her family, having regard to his or her overall financial position and reasonable expenditure. However, every effort is made by the HSE, within...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore 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 community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. As of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: GPs are private practitioners. The majority of GPs provide services to patients with a Medical Card or a GP Visit Card through the GMS contract. Under the terms of the GMS contract, GPs are obliged to make arrangements to ensure patient care on a 24/7 basis. The majority do this through the GP Out of Hours Cooperatives, which are private organisations run by GPs themselves to meet their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: My Department, with support from the HSE and input from key stakeholders, are currently engaged in a Strategic Review of General Practice. There are over 1,400 GP practices and an approximately 4,000 GPs that provide GP services across the country. The terms of reference for the Review do not specifically reference certain types of practices, such as charity-operated GP practices. Rather, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The final report of the NCHD Taskforce, published in February 2024, includes recommendations for immediate implementation, as well as medium to longer term recommendations to be implemented on a phased basis from 2024 to 2026. €5 million was allocated to support implementation of recommendations in 2023 and 2024. The HSE established an implementation framework to support the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In February 2024, Government approved enhanced capital and current budget sanctions for the New Children’s Hospital (NCH) project and programme, bringing the total approved budget to €2.24 billion. This includes a capital budget of €1.88 billion for designing, building and equipping the NCH and the two satellite centres. A separate €362 million budget is in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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: Medical Register (6 Mar 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As the matter raised is an operational matter, the question should be directed to the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy.