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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly on this issue, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: In accordance with the Health Act 1970 (as amended), eligibility for a medical card is determined by the Health Service Executive (HSE). Medical card provision is primarily based on financial assessment. It is for this reason that financial reassessments are carried out after a specified length of time. Separately, chronic long-term illnesses also require regular clinical reassessment by a...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: I’d like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the very difficult and unacceptable conditions for patients, families and healthcare staff working in Galway University Hospital. I visited Galway in October and it is clear, that action is required there on multiple fronts. Health capital investment decisions are informed by Programme for Government priorities, sectoral policies,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: Health capital investment decisions are informed by Programme for Government priorities, sectoral policies, strategies and reform initiatives as set out in Sláintecare. The delivery of capital projects is a dynamic process and is subject to the successful completion of the various approval stages, in line with the lifecycle approach of the Public Spending Code (PSC). My Department...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The Department of Health is currently developing a regulatory framework for home-support providers with the aim of ensuring that all service-users are provided with high-quality care. This will comprise of primary legislation for the licensing of home support providers, regulations for home support which will set out the minimum requirements that a provider must meet to obtain a licence, and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: Successive National Cancer Strategies have delivered continuing improvements in outcomes for Irish cancer patients in terms of earlier diagnosis, better treatment, and improved rates of survival. National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI) data shows substantial progress being made to control the four major cancers (prostate, breast, lung and colorectal), with mortality rates falling or...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drugs schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. HSE decisions on which medicines are reimbursed by the taxpayer are made on objective, scientific and economic grounds, on the advice of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE)....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Qualifications Recognition (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The Dental Council of Ireland is the regulator for the dental profession in Ireland. The Council is responsible for establishing, maintaining and publishing a Register of Dentists and a Register of Dental Specialists and to provide for the registration and the retention of dentists names in these registers. I welcome the news that some Ukrainian dentists who are currently living in...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The Department of Health has yet to receive any proposals in relation to the 96-bed medical ward block at Wexford General Hospital. However, my understanding is that the HSE is currently compiling a Strategic Assessment Report (SAR) for this proposal to ensure full compliance with the Public Spending code (PSC). As the proposal is forecast to cost in excess of €100m it is expected that...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The organisation referenced by the Deputy receives funding from the HSE, under Section 39 of the Health Act, 2004. Section 39 legally underpins the provision of services similar or supplementary to a service that the HSE may provide. While the Government does provide assistance to organisations that provide services similar or ancillary to services that the HSE may provide, it must be...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: The Dental Treatment Services Scheme (DTSS) provides dental care, free of charge, to medical card holders aged 16 and over. I recognise that there is a need to substantively review and reform the DTSS to align with best international evidence and practice, as outlined in the National Oral Health Policy, Smile agus Sláinte (2019). Work has begun on this review and officials in my...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: My Department are aware of the proposed programme concerned. The strategic review of GP services, which is to commence shortly, will examine the broad range of issues affecting general practice in general and in rural areas specifically, and will identify measures necessary to deliver a sustainable general practice. This programme and other initiatives that could support rural general...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: This week the Government has approved the Enhanced Provision of Elective Care Programme and the preferred locations for the development of new Elective Hospitals in Cork and Galway. In Galway, the preferred site is at Merlin Park University Hospital. In December 2021 the Government agreed, subject to the necessary approvals and requirements under the Public Spending Code being met, a new...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners and therefore may establish practices at a place of their own choosing. There is no prescribed ratio of GPs to patients and the State does not regulate the number of GPs that can set up in a town or community. Under the GMS scheme, the HSE contracts GPs to provide medical services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (8 Dec 2022)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.