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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Adult and child waiting list information by hospital and specialty is published monthly and is available on the National Treatment Purchase Fund's website at: www.ntpf.ie/home/nwld.htm.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (20 Feb 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. As the Deputy may be aware, management and administrative grade staff in the Fórsa union in the HSE commenced industrial action on Friday 6th October. As a consequence of this industrial action, members in these grades are not engaging with political forums or...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Adult and child waiting list information by hospital and specialty is published monthly and is available on the National Treatment Purchase Fund's website at: www.ntpf.ie/home/nwld.htm.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Feb 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: Health Services Waiting Lists (20 Feb 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: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Government and I are fully committed to improving genetics services in Ireland. One of the key ambitions of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland is to build a strong patient and family-centred national genetics service that can be accessed equitably across the country and lifespan of patients. In 2023, the Government allocated €2.7 million...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (15 Feb 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 Appointments Status (15 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: In 2017, the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare in Ireland published the Sláintecare Report which set out a new vision for the future of healthcare in Ireland. Sláintecare is the most significant reform programme in Ireland’s Health Sector. The shared vision of Sláintecare is to introduce a universal health and social care system where everyone has...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (15 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (15 Feb 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: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Feb 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: Departmental Inquiries (15 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Work is actively ongoing in my Department in relation to sourcing an appropriate person to Chair the inquiry, and the Deputy will appreciate that this is a sensitive matter. The Chair is an essential role that needs careful consideration. The role requires an experienced person who will run a fair and independent process, and who can give the inquiry the time and attention it deserves. ...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: GP services are provided without charge to people who hold a medical card or GP visit card under the GMS scheme. Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (15 Feb 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: Departmental Data (15 Feb 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: Vaccination Programme (15 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The immunisation programme in Ireland is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). The committee's recommendations are based on the prevalence of the relevant disease in Ireland and international best practice in relation to immunisation. NIAC continues to revise recommendations to allow for the introduction of new vaccines in Ireland and to keep abreast of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Government and I are fully committed to improving genetics services in Ireland. One of the key ambitions of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland is to build a strong patient and family-centred national genetics service that can be accessed equitably across the country and lifespan of patients. In 2023, the Government allocated €2.7 million...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Feb 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The CEO of the HSE has Instructed a process be put in place a process to make an interim payment in respect of the S39 pay agreement to all Voluntary/Not for Profit S39 agencies funded via both DCEDIY and DOH. Provision had been made in the Revised Estimates in DoH for 2024 to include the retrospection due for 2023 and for the increased funding for 2024. The interim payment will be...