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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 197, 198, 223 and 231 together. The Children's University Hospital, Temple Street is the national tertiary care centre for spina bifida and hydrocephalus. All infants born in Ireland with Spina Bifida are transferred to Temple Street after birth for ongoing neonatal management. Children with spina bifida are seen by a multidisciplinary team at Temple Street...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cover (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The latest data available to me from the Health Insurance Authority on the numbers insured with open membership private health insurers is as follows: MEMBERSHIP End 2008 - Age Group Market 17 & under 518189 18 - 29 334372 30 - 39 370084 40 - 49 322627 50 - 59 268526 60 - 69 188676 70 - 79 96071 80 & over 37014 Total 2135559 End 2009 - Age Group Market 17...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Levy Issues (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The Government agreed in December 2011 to address the European Court of Justice ruling of September 2011 and to work with the VHI in its application process for authorisation by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) subject to further Government consideration of any application for authorisation. Officials from my Department, the VHI and the CBI continue to engage regularly to progress the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: My Department has received an application for funding from the 2013 National Lottery allocation from the organisation in question. This is one of a large number currently being assessed. The Deputy will be informed of the outcome of the application as soon as a decision has been made.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The HSE operates a Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS), for persons entitled to treatment in another EU/EEA member state or Switzerland under EU Regulation 1408/71, as per procedures set out in EU Regulation 574/72 and in accordance with Department of Health and Children Guidelines. Within these governing EU Regulations and the Department of Health and Children's Guidelines, the TAS provides for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to persons on a temporary visit to Ireland, under EU Regulations a person who becomes ill or injured while on a temporary stay in any EU/EEA Member State or Switzerland may available of emergency health care in the public health system of the country under the terms of that countries public health system. The European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is issued to facilitate this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2013, has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Agency staffing arrangements are intended to be used in the health service to address short-term needs, such as periods of staff absence for maternity leave or due to illness. In recent years there has been an increase in usage of such arrangements, which are expensive and not ideal from a continuity-of-care perspective. There are a number of measures in train to address the level of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: My Department is working with the HSE's National Organ Donation and Transplantation Office to establish the required infrastructure to improve organ donation and transplantation rates. Priority areas for action in 2014 are being identified and the deployment of key donation personnel will be considered in this context.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Significant progress has been made on waiting times since July 2011, when the Special Delivery Unit (SDU) was established to tackle access to acute hospital services. The figures referred to in the Deputy's question concern August of this year. The overall waiting list growth trend experienced from January to July is now reversed in the August figures. There has been a 2% reduction in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract Issues (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: A central objective of the consultant contract is to improve access for public patients to public hospital services. The contract sets out clear rules on the mix of public-private practice that may be undertaken by consultants and measures to manage these rules by appointed clinical directors. These include a total prohibition on consultants undertaking private practice (Type A contract...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: On 19 September this year, an ambulance broke down near Dublin while transferring a patient from Cork for a transplant procedure. The patient, who was ambulant, completed the transfer in a second vehicle and successfully received the planned treatment. The cause of the breakdown has been identified as a lack of fuel. The National Ambulance Service has commenced a full investigation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I have been advised that the child in question became symptomatic on 20 August 2013 and was admitted to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital , Drogheda on 22 August 2013 and diagnosed positive with E. Coli 0157. The child was later transferred to Temple St Hospital and has since made a complete recovery. As part of the HSE investigation, the child's family was asked about the food it had consumed in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Collaborating with individual hospitals, the SDU, together with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) and the HSE, has developed the outpatient waiting list minimum dataset. This allows data to be submitted to the NTPF from hospitals on a weekly basis and, for the first time, outpatient data is available on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters they have been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Financial Resolution No. 8: General (Resumed) (16 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I am very glad to have this opportunity to address the House about the 2014 Health Estimates. I am pleased to announce that I have secured additional funding of €37 million to provide free GP care for all children up to and including five years of age as a key element of the Government's programme of health reform. This will bring an end to Ireland's two-tier health service with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Symphysiotomy Report (16 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 136, 154 and 155 together. As the Deputy may be aware, I received the independent report by Professor Oonagh Walsh on Symphysiotomy in Ireland at the end of May 2013 and the Report is under consideration. I met with the three support groups representing the women concerned in August 2013. At that meeting, I proposed to appoint a judge to meet with the women...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (16 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS) as provided for in EU Regulations and Department of Health and Children Guidelines, does not provide for Travel and Subsistence expenses for patients or their relatives travelling abroad to avail of approved treatments. However the HSE, and specifically the TAS, may provide assistance towards reasonable economic air or sea travel fares for patients, and a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2013, has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (16 Oct 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Collaborating with individual hospitals, the SDU, together with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) and the HSE, has developed the outpatient waiting list minimum dataset. This allows data to be submitted to the NTPF from hospitals on a weekly basis and, for the first time, outpatient data is available on...