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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Service Executive (HSE) provides a wide range of medical and surgical aids and appliances, free of charge to eligible persons (such as medical card holders and people on the Long-Term Illness scheme) following assessment by a relevant health professional. These are provided through community services known as Community Funded Schemes and play a key role in assisting and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Sep 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 (27 Sep 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: Medical Aids and Appliances (27 Sep 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: Healthcare Policy (27 Sep 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: Hospital Staff (27 Sep 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: Medicinal Products (27 Sep 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: Medicinal Products (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government is committed to making healthcare more accessible and affordable and has introduced several reductions in the cost of healthcare. The Drug Payment Scheme (DPS) provides for the refund of the amount by which expenditure on approved prescribed medicines or medical and surgical appliances exceeds a named threshold in any calendar month. The DPS is not means tested and is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 513 to 515, inclusive, and 521 together. In accordance with the 2019 Agreement with GPs, the Department of Health and the HSE have commenced preparatory work on a strategic review of GP services to examine how best to ensure the provision of GP services in Ireland for the future. The review will examine the broad range of issues affecting general practice...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Sep 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. The Government is aware of the workforce issues currently facing general practice, including the limited access to GP services in certain rural...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: GP ICT systems have undergone a series of significant developments in recent years. During the pandemic we saw the rapid deployment of a new facilities to support electronic transfer of prescriptions, access to teleconsultations, electronically refer patients for Covid testing, submit Covid vaccination data to facilitate national data collection and the issuance of EU Digital Covid...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Developing a standardised approach to the provision of electronic discharges is something the department is considering and indeed has engaged with the HSE on as part of the Sláintecare programme. There are some sites that already issue discharges electronically - some are simple notifications of discharge whilst others are full discharge notes. Bringing more consistency to the discharge...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of medical services to medical card and GP visit card holders without charge. Under the GMS contract, GPs are to provide eligible patients with "all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner". While GPs will often be the first point of contact for patients...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (27 Sep 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: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The 2022 Waiting List Action Plan was launched with €350m of funding on 25 February this year following extensive engagement between my Department, the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).  The Action Plan contains 45 actions to reduce and reform waiting lists across four main areas of work: delivering capacity, reforming scheduled care, enabling scheduled care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: While medical card and GP visit card holders that experience difficulty in finding a GP to accept them as a patient can be assigned to a GP's GMS patient list by the HSE, I am aware that general practice workforce issues can impede access to GP services in certain areas. To increase the number of GPs in Ireland, the Government has provided significant further investment and taken steps to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Under the terms of the current GMS contract, GPs are required to provide eligible patients with ''all proper and necessary treatment of a kind usually undertaken by a general practitioner and not requiring special skill or experience of a degree or kind which general practitioners cannot reasonably be expected to possess". Persons who hold a medical card or a GP visit card are not subject to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (27 Sep 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: My officials have sought further information regarding this particular radiology machine from the HSE's National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP). The NCCP have notified my officials that they will respond as soon as possible, and my officials will update the deputy without delay once they receive the NCCP's response. Awaiting additional information.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (27 Sep 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.