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- Written Answers — Health Service Contracts: Health Service Contracts (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 189 and 190 together. Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive 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 questions raised by the Deputy. My...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 192 and 194 together. Chapter II of Part IV of the Health Act 1970 requires the Health Service Executive to provide inpatient and outpatient services to persons with full eligibility and persons with limited eligibility, and allows for them to provide ambulance services. Inpatient and outpatient services within the meaning of the Health Act, 1970 are publicly...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: Eligibility for health services, including hospital services, is based on residency. Any person accepted by the Health Service Executive as being ordinarily resident in Ireland is entitled to either full eligibility or limited eligibility. Where a voluntary hospital enters into an agreement with the Health Service Executive under Section 38 of the Health Act 2004, all persons are eligible...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has a range of functions under the Health Acts 1947 to 2007 and other Acts including the Child Care Acts 1991 to 2007 and the Mental Health Acts 1945 to 2001. The Health Act 1970 provides broadly for persons to have either full or limited eligibility for health services. Persons with full eligibility are entitled to general practitioner services,...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Act, 1970 (as amended) provides for two categories of eligibility for all persons ordinarily resident in the country, i.e. full eligibility (medical card) and limited eligibility (all others). Entitlement to a medical card is determined mainly by reference to means, with provision for discretion to grant a card in cases of 'undue hardship' where the income guidelines are exceeded....
- Written Answers — Tobacco-Related Diseases: Tobacco-Related Diseases (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The prevalence of smoking among young people continues to be a cause of concern. Multiple strategies are required to reduce smoking prevalence, including education, enforcing legislation, health promotion campaigns, pricing and further controls on the sale and advertising of tobacco. My Department and the Department of Education and Science work in partnership in relation to the promotion...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: It is essential that every health care provider and facility is fully cognisant of patient safety issues and takes account of these in the organisation, management and delivery of services. In this context the HSE has indicated that it intends to undertake a systems and risk management review of surgical services at Mallow General Hospital. Draft terms of reference are being drawn up and...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: Subject to overall parameters set by Government, the Health Service Executive has the responsibility for determining the composition of its staffing complement. In that regard, 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 Executive...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: Beaumont Hospital operates as a regional centre in providing services to adults with cystic fibrosis. In the 2008 Budget, a special allocation of â¬2.5m was provided to enable the hospital to provide out patient facilities for cystic fibrosis patients. The HSE advises that patients with cystic fibrosis will also benefit from additional single room capacity in the new medical admissions...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive 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 issue raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: Under the General Medical Services (GMS) Scheme general practitioners hold one of two contract types, i.e. the Fee per Item contract (first introduced in 1972) or the Capitation contract (effective from 1989). These contracts reflect the agreed outcome of negotiations between my Department and the GP representative body, the Irish Medical Organisation. Both contract types contain provisions...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 209 and 210 together. Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive 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...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has designated University College Hospital Galway and Limerick Regional Hospital as the two cancer centres in the Managed Cancer Control Network for the HSE Western Region, which includes Sligo. The designation of cancer centres aims to ensure that patients receive the highest quality care while at the same time allowing local access to services, where...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 213, 221 and 222 together. The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) was established to treat patients who are longest waiting on public hospital waiting lists. In February this year, the NTPF marked the milestone of having treated over 100,000 people since 2002. These comprised 77,000 in-patients and 23,000 out-patients. Access to treatment under the...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Medical Council makes provision for guidance on parental consent in the current edition of "A Guide to Ethical Conduct and Behaviour â 6th Edition 2004". 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. The Executive is therefore the appropriate body to consider the...
- Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: I have held meeting with various Heads of States, Government Ministers and other representatives of Governments from non-OECD countries over the past three years, and details of these meetings are set out in the following table for the information of the Deputy. Date Met with Location 27/07/2005 Chinese Ambassador to Ireland Hawkins House 27/07/2005 Ambassador of the Kingdom of Lesotho...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006 provides for the Health Service Executive (HSE) to make applications on behalf of living persons who are unable to make an application under the Scheme due to physical or mental incapacity. The HSE has informed my Department that following the launch of the Health Repayment Scheme, HSE Officials, in institutions approved under the Repayment Scheme,...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has informed my Department that it operates client Patient Private Property (PPP) Accounts as provided for in the Health (Repayment Scheme) Act 2006. The relevant sections of this Act allows the HSE to operate PPP accounts on behalf of clients, to invest client funds, use client funds for their benefit and requires the HSE to seek the direction of the...
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive has responsibility for administering the Repayment Scheme and the information sought by the Deputy relates to matters within the area of responsibility of the Executive. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (29 Apr 2008)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has responsibility for administering the health repayment scheme in conjunction with the appointed scheme administrator KPMG/McCann Fitzgerald. The HSE have informed my Department that over 39,000 applications for living and deceased patients have been received under the Health Repayment Scheme. Over 23,500 of the claims received by the Scheme...