Results 121-140 of 556 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the average time between completion of pre-operative assessments and a growth rod lengthening procedure at Children's Health Ireland (CHI); if CHI has audited this timeframe against recognised best practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27462/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 741. To ask the Minister for Health to provide copies of all relevant clinical policies, protocols, and standard operating procedures governing pre-operative assessment for paediatric growth rod lengthening at Children's Health Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27463/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 742. To ask the Minister for Health if she will confirm whether Children's Health Ireland has a dedicated clinical protocol, policy, or standard operating procedure (SOP) for the identification, assessment, and perioperative management of children with known or suspected connective tissue disorders undergoing spinal surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 743. To ask the Minister for Health the pre-operative risk assessments in place at Children's Health Ireland for children with connective tissue disorders (details supplied), particularly in terms of anaesthetic risk, vascular fragility, wound healing, and spinal stability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27465/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 744. To ask the Minister for Health if children with diagnosed or suspected connective tissue disorders are routinely referred to genetics, rheumatology, cardiology, or other relevant specialties before major spinal surgery at Children's Health Ireland; if this coordination is part of a formal care pathway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27466/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 745. To ask the Minister for Health the post-operative protocols in place at Children's Health Ireland for monitoring children with connective tissue disorders who undergo spinal fusion or growth rod procedures; if these differ from standard care pathways; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27467/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 746. To ask the Minister for Health if Children's Health Ireland has conducted any audit or review of surgical outcomes, complications, or readmissions among children with connective tissue disorders following spinal surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27468/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 747. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide copies of all policies, protocols, and standard operating procedures relating specifically to the management of connective tissue disorders in paediatric patients undergoing orthopaedic or spinal surgery at Children's Health Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27469/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that have been required to return to theatre due to post-operative infection following spinal fusion or growth rod procedures in Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street, CHI at Crumlin, and Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, in each of the past five years, in tabular form (details supplied); and the number of children that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 754. To ask the Minister for Health routinely tracks and review cases involving multiple re-operations due to infection following spinal fusion or growth rod procedures; if these cases are subject to morbidity and mortality review or internal audit; the lessons, if any, that have been identified from these cases and the changes that have been implemented across sites to reduce the risk of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 755. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish any available findings from internal or external reviews conducted at Children's Health Ireland or Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital in relation to post-operative spinal infections and surgical site complications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27477/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 756. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm whether parents of children undergoing spinal fusion or growth rod procedures at Children's Health Ireland are informed of the relevant post-operative infection rates, either site-specific or national, as part of the surgical consent process; if this information is not routinely disclosed, to explain how this complies with the principles set out...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 800. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug will be made available to patients for certain types of gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers under the HSE reimbursement scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27684/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 801. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to a recent poll into the attitudes of front-line ambulance staff towards the leadership of the National Ambulance Service (details supplied); if she has replied to correspondence from the representative organisation; the steps she will take in response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27685/25]

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (22 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I join other members in wishing Deputy Lawlor well in his role as Cathaoirleach. I also commend Eileen Flynn on all of her work over many years of activism on these issues. It is very important that we centre in our work the voice of Travellers, hear their experience and listen to Traveller organisations. There are very serious human rights issues in housing, health - mental health in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (22 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 355. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on a waiting list for pre-exposure prophylaxis by clinic and wait time, in tabular form. [26447/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (22 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 356. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of public sexual health clinics in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26448/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections (22 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 357. To ask the Minister for Health to identify which counties do not have a public sexual health clinic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26449/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (22 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if the contract signed with a software company, and the work that was carried out by that company, in respect of the development and deployment of MedLis (Medical Laboratory Information System) was reviewed before it was extended in 2022 (details supplied); the reasons this system has only been rolled out in one hospital; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (22 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of sites that the MedLis (Medical Laboratory Information System) is to be deployed to; the timeline for deployment in each site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26503/25]