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Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The proposal for a new Tobacco Products Directive is being discussed by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers. The Public Health Working Party has met thirteen times to discuss this proposal. These negotiations are on-going and no conclusion has been reached in relation to the Commission proposal in Article 13 regarding roll-your-own tobacco. As Chair of the negotiations on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The Special Delivery Unit (SDU) is working to unblock access to acute services by improving the flow of patients through the system, and by streamlining waiting lists, including the management of referrals from GPs by hospitals. The SDU is working closely with its partner agencies - mainly the HSE and the NTPF. As a priority, public hospitals were instructed to ensure that, by the end...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The Special Delivery Unit (SDU) is working to unblock access to acute services by improving the flow of patients through the system, and by streamlining waiting lists, including the management of referrals from GPs by hospitals. The SDU is working closely with its partner agencies - mainly the HSE and the NTPF. As a priority, public hospitals were instructed to ensure that, by the end...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Collaborating with individual hospitals, the SDU together with the NTPF and the HSE have developed the OP waiting list minimum dataset that allows for data to be submitted to the NTPF from hospitals on a weekly basis and, for the first time, outpatient data is available on www.ntpf.ie. The ntpf website provides...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which once-off grants are paid to community and voluntary organisations, providing a range of health related services. If an organisation wishes to make an application for National Lottery Funding they should send in a formal application. Detailed procedures, along with the application form are set out on the Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The Meningitis Research Foundation, a UK based charity registered in 1989, established an office in Dublin in 1996. It aims to work with families who have been affected by meningitis to promote awareness of the disease and to assist in raising funds for research into its prevention and treatment. My Department administers a National Lottery Discretionary Fund from which grants are paid to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: National Lottery applications are received by my Department from a range of community and voluntary organisations involved in various health related activities. The relevant Unit in my Department liaises with the appropriate personnel in the Health Service Executive to assess each individual application and consider whether the application should be recommended for funding. When the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) of the Health Service Executive (HSE) publishes weekly data on Clostridium Difficile (C.diff) in arrears on its website. New cases of C.diff have been notifiable in Ireland since 4th May 2008. In 2008 some 1,614 cases of C.diff were reported, 1,895 in 2009, 1,692 in 2010 ,1,848 in 2011 and 1,619 in 2012. Figures up to 25th May, 2013...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: A significant reform programme has been underway in recent years in pre-hospital care services across the country, including the North East, for the development of a clinically driven, nationally co-ordinated system, supported by improved technology. The programme involves a number of measures, including the Performance Improvement Action Plan, development of the intermediate care service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Building on work already undertaken by the HSE, the National Treatment Purchase Fund has now taken over the reporting of outpatient waiting time data. For the first time data is available on www.ntpf.ie. The collation and analysis of outpatient waiting time data in a standardised format will reveal the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Building on work already undertaken by the HSE, the National Treatment Purchase Fund has now taken over the reporting of outpatient waiting time data. For the first time data is available on www.ntpf.ie. The collation and analysis of outpatient waiting time data in a standardised format will reveal the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jun 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 Waiting Lists (11 Jun 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: Health Services Staff Recruitment (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: As this is an operational matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: EU Directives (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: Three Directives fall due for transposition by my Department during the remainder of 2013 as follows: 1. Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients' rights in cross-border health care - due 25/10/13 The purpose of the EU Directive on the Application of Patients' Rights in Cross Border Health care is to establish a clear...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: As this is a service matter, the Deputy will receive a reply directly from the HSE.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The HSE National Ambulance Service (NAS), through its national control centre reconfiguration project, is continuing to rationalise the number of ambulance control rooms across the country, with a target of one national system. This project is focused on improving call taking and dispatch functions and on delivering improved technology. This will assist in improving response times and will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (11 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: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: Improving access to outpatient services is a key priority for the Government. Building on work already undertaken by the HSE, the National Treatment Purchase Fund has now taken over the reporting of outpatient waiting time data. For the first time data is available on www.ntpf.ie. The collation and analysis of outpatient waiting time data in a standardised format will reveal the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2013)

James Reilly: The management of inpatient and day case waiting lists for patients awaiting public health care is based on the principle that after urgent and cancer patients are treated, then clinically assessed routine patients should be seen in chronological order (i.e. longest waiter first). Should the patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier...