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- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The National Cancer Registry, the national verifying body, takes a different view.
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The main centre has 2,500 units.
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I am listening, I am sorry.
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I thank the House for providing me with an opportunity to speak about the cancer control plan. I will try to answer as many of the issues raised by Senators as I can. The cancer control plan is about one thing and one thing only and that is patient survival. Ireland comes 18th out of 23 European countries in terms of survival from cancer. The only area of cancer where we are top of the...
- Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (2 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: However, 23 people were put together, 17 of whom were doctors and six were non-medics. These 23 people recommended to the Government that we should have eight centres and stated where those centres should be. If we take the two hospitals mentioned, namely in Sligo and Mayo, a person with brain, lung or pancreatic cancer in Sligo or Mayo already travels. A total of 52% of all the lung...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Repayment Scheme Appeals Office is an independent office established to provide an appeals service to those who wish to appeal the decision of the Scheme Administrator under the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006. The Health Repayment Scheme Appeals Office has advised my Department that as of 6 June 2008, nine appeals have been lodged with the Health Repayment Scheme Appeals Office...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: One of the key challenges facing the health service is the need to ensure that services are planned and provided in line with the clinical needs of the patient. A number of experimental initiatives have been put in place by the Health Service Executive with a view to providing care in community based rather than hospital based settings where clinically appropriate. The "Hospital in the Home"...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Section 53 of the Health Act, 1970, (as amended by the Health (Amendment) Act, 2005) provides, inter alia, for the levying of a charge where in-patient services have been provided for a period of not less than 30 days or for periods aggregating not less than 30 days within the previous 12 months. The Health (Charges for In-Patient Services) Regulations 2005 in keeping with Section 53 of the...
- Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Directive 2005/36/EC provides for the mutual recognition of qualifications of nationals of member states in respect of a broad range of regulated professions, including a number of regulated health professions. This new Directive makes specific provision â in Articles 28, 29 & 30 â for training in general medical practice. The specific qualifications for general medical practice are...
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 193 to 203, inclusive, and 205 to 210, inclusive, together. The Deputy's questions relate to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have...
- Written Answers — Drugs-related Deaths: Drugs-related Deaths (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The information sought by the Deputy is not available in full. However, between January 1998 and December 2001 the Dublin City and County Coroner's Office investigated 332 opiate-related deaths in Dublin. Two-thirds of the opiate users who died tested positive for three or more drugs while just over eleven per cent tested positive for one drug. Methadone was detected in 189 of the 332...
- Written Answers — Health Service Funding: Health Service Funding (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The Government's sustained high level of investment in healthcare has enabled the completion and commissioning of numerous new facilities in both the acute and the non-acute sectors. This year, under the National Development Plan, capital funding of approximately â¬594m has been provided to the Health Service Executive. Responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act, 2004. It is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act, 2004. It is a matter for the Executive to manage and deploy its human resources to best meet the requirements of its Annual Service Plan for the delivery of health and personal social services to the public. The...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular matter raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: There is no statutory obligation on the Health Service Executive (HSE) to provide chiropody services; however in practice arrangements have been made in several regions to provide these services, primarily to people who are medical card holders aged 65 years and over. Optometric services are provided, free of charge, to adult medical card holders under the terms of Section 67(1) of the Health...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Persons and their dependants who would otherwise experience undue hardship in meeting the cost of General Practitioner (GP) services qualify for a medical card, which entitles them to a range of health services free of charge. In 2005, the GP visit card was introduced as a graduated benefit so that people on moderate and lower incomes, particularly parents of young children, who did not...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issues raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jul 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has commissioned a number of reviews of the configuration of acute hospital services including the one in the Mid West referred to by the Deputies. In each case, the first priority is patient safety. The challenge in the years ahead will be to organise, manage and deliver high quality services that are focussed in the first instance on the safety of patients....