Results 19,721-19,740 of 24,635 for speaker:Mary Harney
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 Jan 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 Services: Hospital Services (31 Jan 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.
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 206 and 217 together. The new contract will set out in detail formal employment arrangements for consultants practicing exclusively in the public sector. Its key features are as follows. Consultant-provided service is to be delivered by teams of consultants, where the consultants have a substantial and direct involvement in the diagnosis, delivery of care and...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 Jan 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.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: There are increasing demands on the acute hospital system to provide more treatments and to provide more advanced and specialised procedures. The capacity of the acute hospital system continues to increase in response to these demands. In 2001, the average number of inpatient beds and day places available for treatment of patients in public acute hospitals was 12,145. The hospital returns for...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The Health Service Executive's Vote for 2006 includes an additional â¬4 million to allow a further increase of 22 in the number of general practitioner training places. This represents a significant commitment to responding to future general practitioner manpower needs, and is the second of three phased increases intended to bring the number of training places nationally to 150. The HSE has...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The issue raised in 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.
- Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The personal public service number is used by the Health Service Executive as a unique identifier for people who are entitled to publicly provided general practitioner services under the General Medical Services, GMS, scheme. The unique identifier appears on patients' medical cards, which they are required to produce when availing of services from their GMS general practitioner. The...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: At the end of September 2005 there were a total of 1,578 whole-time equivalent public health nurses or 1,905 individual public health nurses, employed by the Health Service Executive. The HSE sponsors 130 nurses per annum to undertake the higher diploma in public health nursing. The annual cost of this programme is in excess of â¬4.5 million. The projected supply from these training courses...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: Responsibility for staff recruitment within the Health Service Executive rests with the HSE. I am advised by the HSE that it has initiated the process to fill the vacancy arising of National Hospitals Office director. The recruitment process will be undertaken by the Public Appointments Service on behalf of the HSE, in accordance with the provisions of code of practice 01/05, external and...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (31 Jan 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.
- Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (31 Jan 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.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: My Department has had discussions with the Irish Health Services Accreditation Board about the development and operation of accreditation schemes for residential care and primary care services. The board intends to develop these schemes further in 2006.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The management and delivery of health and personal services are now the responsibility of the Health Service Executive. This includes responsibility for the provision of CAT scanning services at hospitals in the south east. 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...
- Written Answers — Health Service Reform: Health Service Reform (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: All the international data suggests that good hospital management usually results in both effective financial control and high quality patient care. There is no evidence that poor patient care has resulted in financial gains. In fact, the reverse usually occurs. I agree that quality of care is an issue of concern to all of those who use the health services and quality is as important as value...
- Written Answers — Clinical Indemnity Scheme: Clinical Indemnity Scheme (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: The clinical indemnity scheme, CIS, has been established on the principle of enterprise liability. As such, the scheme covers institutions such as the Health Service Executive, voluntary hospitals, agencies providing services to persons with disabilities and so forth, rather than individual practitioners. The activities of doctors, nurses and others employed by enterprises included in the CIS...
- Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: My Department administers two superannuation schemes for public health sector employees, the nominated health agencies superannuation scheme and the voluntary hospitals superannuation scheme. The Health Service Executive administers the local government superannuation scheme for its employees. Public health sector scheme members and pensioners have a right to appeal the trustees'...
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (31 Jan 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 on those travelling for radiotherapy treatment. I approved this plan in December and it was laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas earlier this month. I made an additional â¬9...
- Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: Since 2003, management has attempted to commence substantive negotiations on a new contract with the medical organisations. For a number of reasons, including the organisations' opposition to the extension of the clinical indemnity scheme to consultants, both the IMO and the IHCA refused to begin talks until November 2005. There is no doubt that the implementation of management's proposals...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (31 Jan 2006)
Mary Harney: On the basis of the figures contained in the 2004 annual report of the Health Service Executive, shared services, primary care reimbursement service, it is estimated that the additional cost involved of providing GP visit cards to all those non-medical card holders under 16 years of age will be in the region of â¬129 million. On a similar basis, the cost involved of providing medical cards...