Results 7,021-7,040 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: We are not centralising. We are bringing hospitals together to work as a network. The evidence is overwhelming. Every training body has signed on. For example, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland strongly supports the cancer control plan. Volume equates with quality. Since the volume in terms of rare diseases is low, this does not apply to all cases, but volume and quality are...

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: There is not. There are individual pockets——

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: ——in which people are perceived to have been adversely affected and might not be happy from time to time. In the main, all of the training bodies support the reform. There may be issues along the edges, but the reform of hospitals is supported.

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: What is the Deputy discussing?

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: I am not aware of the report on a hospital not performing because it had been starved of resources to which Deputy Reilly referred. We have increased resources five fold in the past 12 or so years, but it is not just an issue of resources. Were there never to be an extra penny, the manner in which we organise services does not meet the patient safety test. This issue must be addressed as a...

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: The resources necessary to do what we want this year will be forthcoming. We have already given——

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: Deputy Reilly needs to read the report in its entirety instead of taking pieces from it. The commitment to the——

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: The Deputy has been briefed by Dr. Paul Burke, Dr. Cathal O'Donnell and many of the region's other clinicians, who are enthusiastic. I am sure that there are doctors in the mid-west who do not agree, but everything has its enemies and reform has quite a few cynics, who we know. However, the majority of hospital doctors in the mid-west are enthusiastic about the changes, including doctors in...

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: They relate to another part of the country.

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: I must repeat the truth.

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 40, 101 and 212 together. The Government is committed to ensuring the delivery of the best quality health services for the people of County Roscommon in a safe and cost effective way. Ensuring patient safety is paramount so that people can have confidence in the services and that the best possible patient outcomes can be achieved. It is essential that we...

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: As for the aforementioned consultant appointment, the Deputy is aware there are personnel issues in this regard. I understand the current post-holder has an illness.

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: At present, we are in the process of appointing two physicians.

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: I have not been briefed to answer that question and will revert to the Deputy, if that is in order. As for the sterile unit, it will happen this year. There is a commitment——

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: No.

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: I am advised this will happen during 2009. In respect of many of the issues pertaining to critical care and high dependency, if the hospitals continued to operate separately as two independent hospitals, it would not be possible to deliver the high-quality service that currently is the benchmark. While this may not have been the benchmark in the past, in regard to the answers to earlier...

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: As for the services within Portiuncula, the HealthStat data on Portiuncula were highly disappointing and serious issues must be addressed within that hospital pertaining to a number of issues, including the public-private mix and many other areas that I will not go through here. From henceforth, they will work virtually as a single entity, certainly as far as surgery and other services are...

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: I do not know the answer regarding the critical care report. As the Deputy is aware, there are serious industrial relation issues in Portiuncula, which are costing an enormous amount of money. That issue is before the industrial relations machinery of the State at present and the sooner it is addressed, the better because of the amount of money that is being wasted. I do not know whether...

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: We have been losing €30,000 on this dispute for quite a long time now.

Hospital Services. (31 Mar 2009)

Mary Harney: As the Deputy is aware, Monaghan and Cavan will operate as a single hospital.