Results 19,181-19,200 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: In general, patients waiting more than three months on an inpatient neurosurgical waiting list can qualify for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. However, within this specialty there are some treatments of a very specialised nature requiring the skills of specific consultant neurosurgeons and multidisciplinary teams and for reasons of complexity these cases are best...
- Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: My Department has been informed by the chief executive of the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, that it continues to deal with queries and representations from Deputies on behalf of constituents. If the Deputy has a particular instance in mind, he should contact the chief executive of the fund directly in order to resolve the matter. The Deputy will be aware that arrangements have been...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health 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 — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The Pensions (Abatement) Act 1965 provides the legislative basis for the suspension or reduction of an allowance-pension where, after retirement, a scheme pensioner is employed in an agency or organisation in which the superannuation scheme paying the pension applies. Remuneration plus pension for the specified period should not exceed the uprated remuneration for the post from which the...
- Written Answers — National Cancer Strategy: National Cancer Strategy (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: I received the Strategy for Cancer Control in Ireland 2006 from the chairman of the National Cancer Forum in January. I am currently examining it with a view to bringing proposals to the Government. I expect to have the strategy published shortly. The strategy recommends a whole-population approach to cancer care, with a strong emphasis on integration and holistic care together with a strong...
- 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 this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The National Service Plan 2006 of the Health Service Executive provides a commitment to develop proposals to support patients who have to travel long distances to access specialist services, with particular focus in 2006 on those travelling for radiotherapy treatment. I approved this plan in December and it was laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas last month. I made available an...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (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 — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: My Department has compiled the requested information which has been forwarded to the Deputy under separate cover due to the volume of data involved. The Deputy should note that this list takes no account of duplicate entries in the case of board members who may have been re-appointed to a board or appointed to more than one Board within the timeframe involved.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 132 and 136 together. The Deputy's questions relate 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. The HSE is responsible for considering new capital proposals and progressing them under the health capital programme. Accordingly, the Department of...
- Written Answers — Infectious Diseases: Infectious Diseases (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre collects data on MRSA bacteraemia, also known as bloodstream infection or blood poisoning, for the purposes of the surveillance, prevention and control of MRSA as part of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System. The European system, which collects data on the first episode of bloodstream infection per patient per quarter, was...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The Minister for Health and Children is responsible for health policy and will continue to be accountable to the Oireachtas in that regard. The Health Service Executive, which is the national body with statutory responsibility under the Health Act 2004 for the management and delivery of health and personal social services, will be involved in informing the making of policy by the Minister....
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: Trolleys are used throughout acute hospitals, for example in emergency departments and day wards. Hospital trolleys are not used in lieu of inpatient beds. Trolleys can be used in the course of treatment to transport patients for diagnostic tests or medical and surgical procedures. They can also be used to allow patients to rest or recover in the course of treatment in emergency departments...
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: On 31 December 1990, the bed complement of hospitals in the HSE network was 11,154 inpatient beds and 284 day places. The average number of beds available for use in hospitals in the HSE network between January and December 2005 was 12,038 inpatient beds and 1,213 day places. These figures are provisional and refer to the average number of beds available throughout 2005, including beds which...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 140 and 141 together. Gross current funding for the health services has increased by almost â¬6 billion, or 92%, over the last five years. When the increases required to fund general pay increases, benchmarking and other pay awards, non-pay inflation and increases in drugs costs are taken into account, approximately â¬1.8 billion has been provided for...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The Deputy's questions relate 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, the Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health 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, the Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (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 to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
- Hospital Staff. (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: Under the terms of the 1997 consultant contract, each consultant is contracted to work within the normal working week from Monday to Friday. Most consultants are also available on an on-call basis outside these hours. In 2003, the national task force on medical staffing recommended that health professionals should work as part of a multidisciplinary team centred on delivering quality patient...
- Hospital Staff. (2 Mar 2006)
Mary Harney: The Deputy is correct. The idea is to provide a 24-hour, seven-day service delivered, rather than led, by the consultants. There are 4,000 non-consultant hospital doctors and 2,000 consultants working in this country and we need to change that ratio around if we are to have consultant delivered services. The commitment in the current contract is for 39 hours to public service work and we want...