Results 9,601-9,620 of 9,648 for speaker:Jack Chambers

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 589. To ask the Minister for Health to add fibromyalgia to the long-term illness scheme; the measures he is taking to raise awareness of fibromyalgia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6200/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Appointments to State Boards (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 558. To ask the Minister for Health the process for board appointments at the new Health Service Executive hospital trust; if positions on the trust were filled internally or publicly advertised; the organisational structure of the trust; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6080/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 559. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to introduce minimum unit pricing on alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6081/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 560. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for bone density tests in Connolly Hospital in Dublin 15; the waiting time for this test in each Health Service Executive area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6082/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 561. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries cancelled in every hospital in each month over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6083/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 562. To ask the Minister for Health the policy regarding the cancellation of elective procedures in hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6084/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if he has monitored and tracked the number of non-consultant hospital doctors in the hospital system to achieve maximum retention; the number of these doctors who were formally but are not now working in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6085/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 564. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage and number of general practitioners who have signed up to the free general practitioner cards for the under sixes scheme, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6086/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 565. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners who have withdrawn from the free general practitioner care for the under sixes scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6087/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 566. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for further plans to roll out free general practitioner care in the health system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6088/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 567. To ask the Minister for Health the number of discretionary medical cards in existence in the health service, by month, over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6089/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 568. To ask the Minister for Health if he has established a working group on the proposal to introduce a sugar tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6090/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 569. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive care unit beds in Dublin hospitals, by month, over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6091/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 570. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of intensive care unit beds in Dublin hospitals is sufficient to meet demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6092/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 571. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for patients attending accident and emergency units to get an intensive care unit bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6093/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 586. To ask the Minister for Health to include the anti-coagulation strip and lancet in the long-term illness scheme or the drugs repayment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6197/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 587. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to build a 100-bed nursing home on the grounds of Connolly Blanchardstown Hospital in Dublin 15 to replace the Woodlands and Silver Birch services; when work on the new site will begin; when the new centres will open; the funding that will be used to carry out this development; the number of residents residing in the existing Woodlands and Silver...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 588. To ask the Minister for Health to organise a national policy on tackling osteoporosis; to reverse the cut in funding to the Irish Osteoporosis Society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6199/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients at Waterford Regional Hospital who are well enough to be discharged but are awaiting an appropriate care package to be put in place; the average waiting time for patients who are ready for discharge at Waterford Regional Hospital but require care packages; the reason such a delay exists and if it relates to funding cuts for home care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Discharges (6 Apr 2016)

Jack Chambers: 591. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, who is waiting to be discharged; the reason for the delay in discharging this person; the reason nursing home funding for this person has been withdrawn; the number of such persons who are awaiting discharge at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown; and if he...