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Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Tobacco Free Ireland set an overarching goal of having Ireland tobacco free by 2025 (i.e., to achieve a smoking prevalence rate of less than 5% in the Irish population). Tobacco Free Ireland has a series of recommendations to facilitate achieving this goal which seek to denormalise tobacco use and to prevent young people from becoming addicted to tobacco products. This broad-based suite of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Radiation oncology services are delivered across three public sites – Galway University Hospital, St. Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network (made up of St. Luke’s Rathgar, Beaumont Hospital and St James’s Hospital) and Cork University Hospital, with two private providers providing this service for public patients in UPMC Whitfield Hospital Waterford and Mid-Western...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Radiation oncology services are delivered across three public sites – Galway University Hospital, St. Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network (made up of St. Luke’s Rathgar, Beaumont Hospital and St James’s Hospital) and Cork University Hospital – with two private providers providing this service for public patients in UPMC Whitfield Hospital Waterford and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Officials from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with support from the Department of Health, the HSE and Tusla attended a number of engagements with trade unions under the auspices of the WRC over recent months. That process culminated in an offer being made to unions. The offer was in line with those accepted by community and voluntary staff in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a contract with the HSE for the provision of health services. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services to medical card and GP visit card holders. For GMS patients unable to locate a GP themselves, the HSE may assign an eligible person to be included on a medical practitioner's GMS list, in accordance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: GP services are provided without charge to people who hold a medical card or GP visit card under the GMS scheme. Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Trusts (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) is a Model 3 Hospital, operating as part of the Saolta University Health Care Group. LUH is an Acute General and Maternity Hospital, providing a wide range of local and regional services on an in-patient, day case and out-patient basis. The budget allocation for LUH in 2023 is €177 million, an increase on the 2022 allocation. As at April 2023,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The HSE is currently planning for the establishment of Surgical Hubs to assist in delivering elective care to patients across the country. These will be modelled on the successful Reeves Centre at Tallaght University Hospital which has significantly reduced waiting times for certain day-case procedures. Planning by the HSE for the Surgical Hubs includes deliverables and timescales for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Please see the table at the link. Source: (i) This data is sourced from the Hospital In-patient Enquiry (HIPE) database. (ii) Data for 2023 is not fully coded yet and figures for this year should be considered provisional up to August 2023 (iii) Data for 2022 is now considered as final Notes: (i) The HIPE database record discharges, not patients. The figures in this table relate to number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (10 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputies will be aware, all nurses and midwives who practise in Ireland must be registered on the Register of Nurses and Midwives, maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI). Along with the NMBI, as the regulator for the professions of nursing and midwifery, I welcome registration applications from those that were educated overseas as they seek to join the health...