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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Sláintecare (23 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: 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: Sláintecare (23 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: 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: Home Care Packages (23 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: The Health Service Executive National Service Plan provides for 18.9 million home support hours to be delivered to 53,700 people and to provide a further 360,000 hours through intensive home care packages to 235 people. COVID-19 is posing significant challenges for many areas of our Older People Services, including Home Support Services. In light of these unprecedented challenges, the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (23 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: HIQA is the independent statutory authority responsible for regulating residential care services for older people, whether delivered in a nursing home managed by the HSE or a private provider. Services are only allowed to operate if they are registered with HIQA and they are inspected regularly to ensure that they maintain a high level of care. HIQA has significant and wide-ranging powers,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (23 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: The Government recognises that our ageing population will require the delivery of significant additional long-stay and step-down facilities. A comprehensive programme of investment in public nursing homes over the period 2016-2021 is well underway. The programme is aimed at maintaining the existing level of public bed provision and will also provide some additional capacity. The National...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: Nursing home providers are ultimately responsible for the safe care of their residents and have a range of legal responsibilities under the regulatory framework, including the Health Act 2007 (Care and Welfare of Residents in Designated Centres for Older People) Regulations 2013. It is recognised that the impact of COVID-19 on society in general and especially those living in nursing...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: The HSE has had a number of formal engagements with the Agency referred to by the Deputy over the past year. There were three meetings in 2019 and there have been a number of meetings so far in 2020, most recently in late June, with further engagement planned. I understand the General Manager notified staff on 3 June 2020 of the decision of the Board of Management to close the facility. ...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Inspections (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: Since 2009 the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, is the statutory independent regulator in place for the nursing home sector, whether a HSE managed or a private nursing home. The Authority, established under the Health Act 2007, has significant and wide-ranging powers up to and including withdrawing the registration of a nursing home facility, which means that it can no longer...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: The Nursing Homes Support Scheme (NHSS), commonly referred to as Fair Deal, is a system of financial support for people who require long-term residential care. Participants contribute to the cost of their care according to their means while the State pays the balance of the cost. The Scheme aims to ensure that long-term nursing home care is accessible and affordable for everyone and that...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: 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: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: On foot of a National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) recommendation, on 23 May a COVID-19 Expert Panel on Nursing Homes was established, to examine the complex issues surrounding the management of COVID-19 among this particularly vulnerable cohort. The purpose of the Panel is to examine the national and international responses to the COVID-19 crisis, and to examine the emerging...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: 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: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: 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: Convalescent Centres (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: The Health Service Executive has been engaged with the Agency referred to by the Deputy for some time in terms of the potential replacement of its core business, which has reduced following the onset of COVID-19. However, the HSE were unexpectedly advised of the Board’s intention to seek to liquidate the company. The HSE has advised the Department that it is acutely conscious of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: 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: Nursing Home Accommodation (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: In line with the Government's Roadmap for the re-opening of Society and Business, the National Public Health Emergency Team has agreed that a phased approach to the recommencement of visiting to long term residential centres would be appropriate at this time. The advice is that a co-ordinated and standard national approach to the recommencement of visiting is taken. In light of the above...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: 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: Home Care Packages (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: A high-quality, consistent home-support service, focused on keeping people well in their homes and communities for as long as possible, is a key enabler to ensuring that people across a continuum of care get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. In this regard, my Department is in the process of developing a statutory scheme for the financing and regulation of home support....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: 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: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (21 Jul 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to this directly as soon as possible.