Results 42,021-42,040 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in the implementation of the recommendations of the Scally report in tabular form. [52270/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 202. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE spent on agency staff each month in 2018 and to date in 2019; the proportion of the anticipated agency staff expenditure by the HSE for 2019 incurred to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52271/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the amount collected in prescription charges for medical card prescriptions in each of the years 2015 to 2018; and the amount projected for 2019. [52272/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Discharges (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective inpatient discharges in each public and voluntary hospital to the end of November 2019. [52273/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances decommissioned by the National Ambulance Service; the number of new emergency ambulances acquired; the number of intermediate care ambulances decommissioned by the National Ambulance Service; the number of new intermediate care ambulances acquired; the number of rapid response vehicles decommissioned by the National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances in service by the year in which they entered service, pods and vehicles; the date on which they entered service; the HSE region in which they are based; the number of intermediate care ambulances in service by the year in which they entered service, pods and vehicles; the date on which they entered service the HSE region...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the distances travelled by emergency, intermediate care ambulances and rapid response vehicles in service in such a capacity by HSE region subdivided by each 50,000 miles and or 80,000 kms, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52276/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner vacancies in each local health area in tabular form. [52277/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Data (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency medicine consultants in each public and voluntary hospital with an emergency department; the number of 24-hour emergency departments; and the number that have an emergency medicine consultant available daily on a 24-hour basis public and voluntary hospital with an emergency department in tabular form. [52278/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 255. To ask the Minister for Health the type of procedures that were cancelled or postponed in regard to the recent cancellations of elective procedures at the children’s hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52381/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 256. To ask the Minister for Health if chemotherapy sessions for children are being delayed; if so, the details of the delays; the causes of same; the number of children affected; the length of delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52382/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services Provision (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 257. To ask the Minister for Health the number of acute beds for paediatric oncology; the number that will be available when the national children’s hospital is open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52383/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 266. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the cut to the minor injury unit fee will come into effect; if the fee cut is temporary or permanent; if temporary, the date on which the cut will expire; the estimated cost of the measure; and the estimated full-year cost of implementing such a measure by year. [52430/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Data (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 267. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding being provided to out-of-hours general practitioner services in winter 2020; and the local breakdown of the allocation in tabular form. [52431/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Planning (12 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 275. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Treatment Purchase Fund has agreed to fund up to 200 additional beds over the winter; if so, the hospitals in which the beds are to be located, in tabular form; when the beds will be opened; if it is planned that the beds will remain available throughout 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52488/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for coming here this morning. I would like to start locally with Purple House Cancer Support in Bray. It is an incredible cancer support service that the Minister for Health and I know well. It supports families and cancer survivors all over Wicklow and in south Dublin. It has to leave the premises it is in on an extremely urgent basis. It has found a fantastic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I have met representatives of Purple House Cancer Support and discussed this issue at length. They feel strongly that they have been misled by the Minister. Rightly or wrongly, that is what they are saying. They believe that promises made in good faith, which they took in good faith, are not being honoured. The Minister and I both appreciate that proper procedures must, and will, be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: That would be great. I acknowledge that the process needs to be followed. The question that Purple House Cancer Support is asking is how long the process will take. It is a reasonable question to ask and the representatives of Purple House need to know the answer. Does it take a week, a month or six months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Minister.