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Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Minister for Health (22 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister and his officials. One of the terms of reference of the committee is the need to establish a universal, single-tier health service where patients are treated on the basis of need rather than ability to pay. I do not see how that fits with what the Minister says with regard to performance incentives and his heavy duty reference to the private sector. It appears that...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Minister for Health (22 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: He never would have set up the HSE. He founded the NHS.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 777. To ask the Minister for Health if there are data available on patient waiting list numbers and waiting times for a number of procedures (details supplied). [13062/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 778. To ask the Minister for Health if there are data available to support a matter (details supplied) in terms of the number of persons that receive a negative diagnosis from a biopsy, having tested positive with the initial blood test. [13063/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 779. To ask the Minister for Health if there are data available on the number of diagnoses of coeliac disease that are confirmed in the absence of such a biopsy, in view of the need to standardise testing and diagnosis protocol. [13064/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 780. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NICE, guidelines are still the agreed protocols in place for medical management of coeliac disease diagnosis; if so, if there are audit data available on compliance with this best practice approach; and if there are agreed training programmes in place for medical professionals to follow these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 781. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a national screening programme for coeliac disease, in view of the potential positive impact that proper diagnosis can have on both the patient and the health service given that potentially one third of persons with coeliac disease have not been diagnosed. [13066/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 782. To ask the Minister for Health if a national screening programme is not under consideration, if a targeted programme will be considered in view of the fact that the likelihood of having coeliac rises to one in ten for blood relatives of those with a positive diagnosis [13067/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 785. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to an assessment of the long-term value to the health service of establishing a national screening service for coeliac disease for all children (details supplied). [13070/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 808. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a national coeliac disease register to identify external contributing factors or to establish possible causation in diagnosis, in addition to any regional variations in the figures for testing, diagnosis and post-diagnosis supports based on availability of financial or medical resources (details supplied). [13201/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 783. To ask the Minister for Health if there are tools and resources in place to collect, analyse and evaluate data in terms of both patient compliance post-diagnosis, for example, diet, annual testing and so on, and the consistency of post-diagnosis aftercare from medical professionals. [13068/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 784. To ask the Minister for Health if there are figures available that can quantify the cost to the health service of patient care for those living with coeliac disease, in terms of direct management of those diagnosed as well as the level of potentially avoidable hospital admissions and outpatient treatments in cases in which the primary diagnosis was coeliac disease. [13069/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: School Curriculum (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 786. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a plan in place to develop educational supports within junior and senior schools possibly under the CSPE curriculum to support needs (details supplied). [13071/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 787. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review funding or the appropriateness of managing funding for persons with coeliac disease within the disability section of a service rather than a more relevant area such as health and well-being (details supplied). [13072/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 788. To ask the Minister for Health the total saving achieved per annum by removing the cost of gluten free products from medical cards since the cut was introduced in 2012; and his plans to review this policy. [13073/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 801. To ask the Minister for Health the status of negotiations between his Department and pharmaceutical companies to secure an agreed price for the drug Savitex (details supplied). [13166/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 819. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital beds per 1,000 of the population; if there is data relating to these figures in a comparable context in respect of other OECD countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13265/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 867. To ask the Minister for Health the current registered nurse-to-patient ratios and doctor-to-patient ratios, respectively; the safe levels required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13427/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Strategy (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 868. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of implementing the national maternity strategy; the current funding allocated for same; the funding earmarked to implement it across the next couple of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13428/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (21 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 869. To ask the Minister for Health the current standard (details supplied) for midwifery staffing; the cost of bringing the current Irish levels in line with this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13429/17]