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Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The number of patients and the waiting times for patients awaiting admission at Tallaght Hospital is a matter of concern. My Department has been briefed by the executive on the position at the hospital and is advised that the executive is in discussion with the hospital on a number of measures designed to achieve improvements in accident and emergency services. I also met the chairman and...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 63 and 88 together. On 3 February last, the Health Service Executive published a report on the delivery of tertiary paediatric services. Commissioned by the HSE at my request and prepared by McKinsey & Company, the report recommends that best outcomes for children should be provided by one national tertiary paediatric centre, which would also provide all...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The Government has agreed the key elements of a scheme for the repayment of long-stay charges for publicly funded residential care. All those fully eligible persons who were wrongly charged and are alive and the estates of all those who were wrongly charged and died since 9 December 1998 will have the charges repaid in full. Draft heads of a Bill for a repayment scheme were submitted to...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I made available an additional €9 million to the Health Service Executive for the development of cancer services in 2006. The Deputy's question concerning the allocation of funds relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The Deputy will appreciate that the management and delivery of services at the hospital is the responsibility of the Health Service Executive in the first instance. As Minister, I am aware of the position regarding certain operational matters affecting the delivery of hospital services in different areas. With regard to Kerry General Hospital I have not been in formal contact recently with...

Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: Implementation of the European working time directive will necessitate the following reductions in the working hours of all doctors: a maximum of 58 hours per week on average from 1 August 2004; a maximum of 56 hours per week on average from 1 August 2007; and a maximum of 48 hours per week on average from 1 August 2009. The national task force on medical staffing was charged with examining...

Written Answers — General Practitioner Co-operatives: General Practitioner Co-operatives (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Medical Education: Medical Education (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: On 1 February I and the Minister for Education and Science, Deputy Hanafin, announced details of a major reform programme in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training, based on the recommendations in the report of the working group on undergraduate medical education and training, chaired by Professor Pat Fottrell, and the report of the postgraduate medical education and...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: As part of the Estimates for health services in 2006, additional funding of €3 million was allocated specifically for the further development of neurology and neurophysiology services. This funding was provided to allow the Health Service Executive to further progress the implementation of the recommendations made by the former Comhairle na nOspidéal in respect of these services. The...

Written Answers — Hospital Reports: Hospital Reports (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: My Department is advised by the Health Service Executive that the process mapping report referred to by the Deputy is currently at draft stage. The executive has established a group, chaired by the temporary director of the National Hospitals Office, to evaluate the report, its implications and its implementation. The date of publication of the report will be decided shortly.

Written Answers — Emergency Services: Emergency Services (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The first part of the Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Pre-hospital emergency care services in the eastern region are provided by the executive and Dublin City Council through Dublin Fire Brigade. My Department is advised by the executive that...

Written Answers — Hospital Waiting Lists: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: Responsibility for the collection and reporting of waiting lists and waiting times now falls within the remit of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. My Department has, therefore, asked the chief executive of the NTPF to reply to the Deputy directly with the requested information. Data on out-patient waiting times are not collated nationally by my Department. The management of...

Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I am satisfied with progress on preparedness for a possible flu pandemic and with public health actions in response to a possible outbreak of avian flu in Ireland. For the sake of clarity, H5N1 avian flu is primarily a disease of birds. To date, there have been a very small number of human cases of H5N1 infection documented, in situations where there has been very close contact with infected...

Written Answers — Accident and Emergency Services: Accident and Emergency Services (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: My Department is in ongoing discussions with the Health Service Executive with regard to the need for improvement in the accident and emergency services, with a particular focus on reducing the numbers on trolleys and the waiting times for patients in individual hospitals. There is a need to build on the existing action plan for accident and emergency services and, in particular, to adopt a...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 97 and 101 together. I recently met with representatives of BreastCheck and they are fully aware of my wish to have the programme rolled out nationally as quickly as possible. For this to happen, essential elements of the roll out must be in place including adequate staffing, effective training and quality assurance programmes. I have made additional revenue...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: Discussions have taken place between representatives of my Department, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and of Belfast City Hospital, BCH. It has been agreed that the most effective strategy to deliver radiation oncology to patients in Donegal at BCH is to commission Co-operation and Working Together, CAWT, which has a track record of successfully managing...

Written Answers — Health Service Reports: Health Service Reports (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: Over the past ten years reports have been prepared in respect of many different aspects of health and personal social services. These range from services for children to services for older people and from acute hospital services to primary health care services. Such reports provided information, data or analysis which informed the development of health strategy, policy or services. The Deputy...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 102 and 112 together. Information supplied to my Department by the primary care reimbursement service of the Health Service Executive, HSE, for February 2006 indicates there are 1,159,794 persons covered for services under the general medical services scheme who are medical holders, representing approximately 28% of the estimated current national population....

Written Answers — Hospitals Building Programme: Hospitals Building Programme (2 Mar 2006)

Mary Harney: The new consultant's contract will set out in detail formal employment arrangements for consultants practising exclusively in the public sector. The impact of the new contract on proposals to locate private facilities on public hospital sites will be considered as part of the transition arrangements under the new contract.