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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (1 Oct 2024)
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: Departmental Communications (1 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Since 1 January 2022, the Department of Health has not consulted, sought briefings, or sought advice from any external communications experts, communications consultancy companies, or public relations/public affairs companies.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (1 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Workers Register (1 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Officials in my Department have been in touch with CORU on the matters raised and asked that CORU respond to you directly with the information requested.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Oct 2024)
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 (1 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: GPs are self-employed practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract and or other contracts with the HSE for the provision of GP services. As private practitioners, GPs 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. As this is a service...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. As self-employed practitioners, GPs 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...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (1 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (1 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Oct 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 557 and 558 together. It is acknowledged that many patients are still waiting too long for hospital appointments and treatments. I am conscious of the burden this places on patients and their families. As part of the multi-annual approach to reducing waiting lists, and just as importantly the length of time that patients are waiting, I published the 2024...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Organisations who are in receipt of funding via Section 39 arrangements are not public bodies. They are privately owned and run organisations, and the terms and conditions of employment for staff in these organisations are ultimately between the employer and the employee. Although not the employers, the Departments are aware that staff employed across the hundreds of HSE funded...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Sep 2024)
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: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 2024)
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: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 2024)
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: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 2024)
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 (26 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (26 Sep 2024)
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 (26 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Currently, all newborn babies (between 3 and 5 days old) are offered newborn bloodspot screening (generally known as the ‘heel prick’) for nine rare but serious conditions that are treatable if detected early in life. In line with the commitment in the Programme for Government, a successor to the National Rare Disease Plan 2014-2018, is currently being developed. A National...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (26 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Senator Norris raised the National Screening Advisory Committee Bill 2020 in Seanad Éireann, where it is currently at Second Stage. The expansion of the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening (NBS) Programme continues to remain a key objective of mine as Minister for Health, and I am pleased to note that the National Screening Advisory Committee (NSAC) has been actively progressing...