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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The HSE has advised that it is working closely with Beaumont Hospital to progress plans for both simultaneous and sequential bilateral cochlear implantation. The development of the service will require additional resources for Beaumont and a business case is currently being prepared, with guidance from two UK independent experts, which will be submitted for consideration in the HSE 2014...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Training and Development (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The only courses approved in 2011 and 2012 were relatively short-term intensive and low cost relative to benefit and therefore did not require a formal cost-benefit analysis. It is essential that senior Officials in my Department take part in training courses and programmes so they can manage more effectively the numerous challenges which face my Department and our Health System now and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: A significant reform programme is under way in the HSE to reconfigure the management and delivery of pre-hospital emergency care services. Under Future Health: A Strategic Framework for Health Reform in Ireland 2012-2015, this will ensure a clinically driven, nationally coordinated system to support all pre-hospital emergency care activity in the State. The programme involves a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cover (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: I do not have a role in the day to day operations of any private health insurance company. However, it is my understanding that each of the private health insurance companies has its own procedures in place to investigate instances where over-charging of customers for hospital treatments is identified and notified to the insurer. In the case of the VHI, the Deputy may wish to note that VHI...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: As the Deputy's question relates to operational matters in the HSE, I have asked the HSE to reply directly to the Deputy on these matters.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: I have requested the HSE to reply directly to the Deputy on the current level of expenditure on agency staff in hospitals and care institutions. The recruitment of permanent staff in the health service is subject to compliance with the terms of the general moratorium on recruitment and the requirement to achieve substantial net reductions in staff numbers in the course of 2013. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The decisions to employ both individuals concerned in the Special Delivery Unit were based on specific requirements for the provision of specialised expertise to address significant health service reform, as committed to in the Programme for Government. The Department of Health fully cooperates with the Revenue Commissioners in the exercise of their duties and is vigilant with regard to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services across all specialties, including ear, nose and throat, is a key priority for the Government. Collaborating with individual hospitals, the SDU, together with NTPF and HSE has developed the outpatient waiting list minimum dataset. This allows data to be submitted to the NTPF from hospitals on a weekly basis so that, for the first time, outpatient data...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 621 together. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women in Ireland, but outcomes are good and improving. There is a growing body of evidence internationally that long term hospital based clinical follow up of well women with a history of breast cancer is not required and confers no additional benefit to the women. Under the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: As stated to this House on 16 April 2013, the health technology assessment conducted by the Health Information and Quality Authority and published in 2012 found that the cost of a national deep brain stimulation (DBS) programme in Ireland would exceed the cost of continuing to fund DBS through the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS) by approximately €21,000 per patient over 10 years. Over...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The three existing paediatric hospitals in Dublin - Children's University Hospital Temple Street, Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin and the paediatric service at Tallaght - will come together in the new children's hospital when built. The HSE National Service Plan 2013 sets out the quantum and type of health services to be provided in 2013 to the three hospitals, within the overall...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The Deputy will be aware that I announced details of a series of measures last December arising from a review of Drugs Task Forces in order to better equip them to respond to the current pattern of substance misuse. These measures included the extension of the remit of the Task Forces to include alcohol addiction and the establishment of a National Coordinating Committee for Drug and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Issues (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The employers of the home helps concerned are funded by the HSE under Section 39 of the Health Act 2004, which provides that the Executive may assist a body that provides a service similar or ancillary to those which the Executive itself may provide. The staff of these employers are not public servants and their pay and superannuation arrangements are not subject to the control of my...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Framework for Smaller Hospitals (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: I published the Framework for Smaller Hospitals and the Hospital Groups Report on 14 May 2013. In preparing the Hospital Groups Report, the project group carried out a comprehensive consultation process with all acute hospitals, including those hospitals covered in the Smaller Hospitals Framework, and other key advocacy groups which requested an opportunity to be consulted. In addition, a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Closures (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The Framework for Smaller Hospitals lists the services that are appropriate to a smaller hospital to ensure a safe, high quality services for patients. The reorganisation of services in Bantry General Hospital is being made in order to ensure that patient safety is not compromised and that the people of West Cork will get the best possible outcome from attending the appropriate hospital best...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Issues (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the particular query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service issue, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Statistics (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the particular query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service issue, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: Statutory pre-hospital emergency care services for the State are provided by the HSE National Ambulance Service (NAS) and, on behalf of the NAS in the greater Dublin area, Dublin Fire Brigade. A significant reform programme has been underway in recent years in pre-hospital care services across the country, including the greater Dublin area, for the development of a clinically driven,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The Government is fully committed to protecting frontline services, including services for children with disabilities, to the greatest extent possible, nowithstanding the financial constraints which the health sector must operate within. Significant resources have been invested by the health sector in recent years in services for children with disabilities. In particular, there is now an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (25 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: In relation to the particular query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service issue, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter.