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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Could I ask Dr. Gilligan specifically about the 1,500 beds? I want to test that a bit. The one hospital group where the waiting lists are coming down - in some cases to zero - is the RCSI hospital group.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I looked into what it appears to be doing differently. What it appears to be doing differently is its admission from emergency department to the ward is substantially lower than the national average. That may be because it is case mix adjusted but it appears to have figured out in a focused manner the people who really do need to be admitted and those who can be sent home or back to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: May I push back on that? Those two things are not mutually exclusive. According to all the data I have examined, Ireland is in the top five countries in the world where pay is concerned. There are approximately 210 countries recognised by the United Nations. If we are in the top five of approximately 210, it is fair to say that, by international comparisons, we do pay well. Ms Ní...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Waiting Times (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients 75 years of age and over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours from January to June 2018; and the hospitals in which the wait occurred. [31206/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 334. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months for a spinal fusion in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, and Temple Street Children's University Hospital in tabular form; and if he will provide the same information for other spinal patients [31207/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 29 June 2018 or the latest date on which data for validated bed closures at hospital and ward level are available in tabular form. [31208/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients attending the rapid access lung clinic in designated cancer centres during the first six months of 2018. [31209/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 337. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients attending the rapid access prostate clinic in cancer centres during the first six months of 2018; and the number attending prostate rapid clinics who attended or were offered an appointment within 20 working days of receipt of referral in the cancer centres over the same time period. [31210/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive spent on agency staff each month to date in 2018; the equivalent figures for each month in 2017; the proportion of the HSE’s anticipated agency staff expenditure for 2018 that has been incurred to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31211/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 339. To ask the Minister for Health the amount collected in prescription charges for medical card prescriptions in each of the years 2015 to 2017; and the amount projected for 2018. [31212/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective inpatient discharges in each public and voluntary hospital during the first six months of 2018. [31213/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of haemodialysis patients treated in acute hospitals during the first six months of 2018. [31214/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of haemodialysis patients treated in contracted centres during the first six months of 2018. [31215/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home therapies dialysis patients treatments during the first six months of 2018. [31216/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges during the first six months of 2018. [31217/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 345. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of acute stroke patients who have spent all or some of their hospital stays in an acute or combined stroke unit during the first six months of 2018. [31218/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of patients with confirmed acute ischaemic stroke who received thrombolysis during the first six months of 2018. [31219/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 347. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide statistical information on emergency ambulances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31220/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 348. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency and intermediate care ambulances respectively in service; the number of each distinguished between pods and vehicles by year, date they entered service and the HSE region in which they are based, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31222/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (11 Jul 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the distances that have been travelled by emergency ambulances, intermediate care ambulances and rapid response vehicles in service respectively, by HSE region and subdivided by every 80,000 km in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31223/18]