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- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (24 Oct 2007)
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 — Health Services: Health Services (24 Oct 2007)
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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Nursing Home Subventions: Nursing Home Subventions (24 Oct 2007)
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 has informed my Department that since the commencement of the scheme over 30,000 claims have been received and to date over 3,800 payments totalling over â¬77.3m have issued while 6,375 offers of repayment...
- Written Answers — Hospital Procedures: Hospital Procedures (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Oct 2007)
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 has informed my Department that since the commencement of the scheme over 30,000 claims have been received and to date over 3,800 payments totalling over â¬77.3m have issued while 6,375 offers of repayment...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: In 2001, the year of the publication of the Health Strategy, the average number of in-patient beds and day places available in the 53 public acute hospitals was 12,145, based on information supplied for the Department of Health and Children's Integrated Management Returns. At the end of 2005, this figure had increased by 1,199 to a total of 13,344, involving an additional 719 in-patient beds...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services was assigned to 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 — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 158 and 159 together. Details of the numbers of medical card and GP visit card holders are provided to my Department each month by the Health Service Executive's Primary Care Reimbursement Service. The figures are provided on a net basis showing the balance after new cards have been issued and other cards, as appropriate, have been deleted from the Executive's...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Medical cards are made available to persons and their dependants who would otherwise experience undue hardship in meeting the cost of General Practitioner (GP) services. In 2005 the GP visit card was introduced as a graduated benefit so that people on lower incomes, particularly parents of young children, who do not qualify for a medical card would not be deterred on cost grounds from...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (24 Oct 2007)
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 — General Practitioner Co-operatives: General Practitioner Co-operatives (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Out of hours cooperatives allow general practitioners to put in place arrangements to provide services to their patients, while their surgeries are closed in the evenings, on weekends and bank holidays. The development of GP cooperatives is in line with the overall health service policy of strengthening primary care services and ensuring that to the greatest extent possible, people's care...
- Written Answers — General Practitioner Co-operatives: General Practitioner Co-operatives (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: The Primary Care Strategy aims to support and promote the health and well-being of the population by developing multi-disciplinary teams of professionals, including general practitioners, which enable the vast majority of people's health and social care needs to be met in their local community. I recognise that in order to support and facilitate this model of care, general practitioners...
- Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (24 Oct 2007)
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 — Health Service Executive: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Section 6 of the Health Act, 2004 states that the Health Service Executive is a corporate body. In view of this, the number of complaints received by the Health Service Executive under its complaints system and the breakdown of these complaints is a matter for the HSE. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter...
- Written Answers — Health Service Executive: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Section 6 of the Health Act, 2004 states that the Health Service Executive is a corporate body. In view of this, the number of complaints received by the Health Service Executive under its complaints system and the breakdown of these complaints is a matter for the HSE. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter...
- Written Answers — Health Service Executive: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: Section 6 of the Health Act, 2004 states that the Health Service Executive is a corporate body. In view of this, the number of complaints received by the Health Service Executive under its complaints system and the breakdown of these complaints is a matter for the HSE. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter...
- Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (24 Oct 2007)
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 — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 171 to 173, inclusive, together. 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...
- Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (24 Oct 2007)
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 — Nursing Home Standards: Nursing Home Standards (24 Oct 2007)
Mary Harney: In January 2007 the Minister for Health & Children published a new set of draft national standards which will apply to all nursing homes. The standards were developed by a working group chaired by DoHC and included the Health Service Executive, Social Service Inspectorate and the Irish Health Services Accreditation Board. As the Health Act, 2007 provides that the enhanced inspection...