Results 1-20 of 249 for 5 million speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...expansion of the GP contract to include opportunistic screening of hypertension (a significant risk factor for stroke). This contract is in place and GPs commenced the service in Q1 2024.the recruitment of 11.5 posts to support acute stroke units, endovascular thrombectomy centres and has enabled the expansion of ESD teams in the community from 6 to 11 teams (target is 21 ESD teams...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (9 Jul 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and Emergency Care Performance is being seen across Emergency Departments nationally. This is driven by the ongoing implementation of the Urgent and Emergency Care Operational Plan. In the first 5 months of the year, despite a 10% increase in ED attendances, the 8am Trolley count has reduced by 14% compared to the same period last year. In addition, there has been a 20% reduction of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...2020. Significant progress has been made in the area of women's health in recent years including; A Free Contraception Scheme was first introduced in September 2022 for women aged between 17 and 25. The scheme was extended to 31 year-olds on 1st January 2024 and further extended to women aged 32 to 35 inclusive on 1st July 2024. The scheme is provided by approx. 2,400 GPs and 2,050...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...packages will be provided by a local dentist under contract to the HSE. The HSE is currently developing these oral healthcare packages, starting with 0-2 years olds, and supported by an additional €4.75m in funding. Regarding orthodontic services, investment in private waiting list initiatives, including an additional €10 million in 2023, has reduced orthodontic...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (13 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...following three pillars: Delivering Capacity, Reforming Scheduled Care, Enabling Scheduled Care Reform. Under the 2024 WLAP, the HSE and National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) are aiming to remove c. 1.81 million patients from active waiting lists. These activity targets are c. 5% above the 2023 out-turn, with a further 3% in outpatient (OPD) core and additional activity planned. In...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the NCCP and includes patient representatives. Under this model, specialist cancer services will work as part of a national genetic service. This is being supported by an investment of nearly €5 million in the national genetics and genomic strategy, which was launched a little over a year ago, and an additional 18 posts. We are very aware of this issue. The hereditary cancer...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the Deputy rightly identified, we have made significant money available over the past number of years for private care because we need to get these children seen. We invest a little over €200 million every year in public oral healthcare services. An additional €17 million in one-off funding has been invested in recent years. In the longer term, the national oral health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...2023, over €3.2 billion was spent on medicines by the State. This represents nearly €1 in every €8 of public funding being spent on health. Over the last 3 years the State has invested €98 million in new medicines, providing 148 new medicines or extended uses for medicines, including 39 medicines with an orphan designation. €98 million represents only the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...that waiting lists for scoliosis and spina bifida services are unacceptably long. I am acutely conscious of the burden that this places on patients and their families. I committed €19 million under the 2022 and 2023 Waiting List Action Plans to tackle these waiting lists. This investment has supported an increase in the number of spinal procedures undertaken in both 2022 and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...;s Health Action Plan, significant investment has been made into women’s health since the formation of this government. This has enabled the action plan to be delivered effectively. Since 2020, under this Government, there has been an investment of over €140 million of additional funding allocated specifically towards women’s health initiatives. Prioritisation of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...that waiting lists for scoliosis and spina bifida services are unacceptably long. I am acutely conscious of the burden that this places on patients and their families. I committed €19 million under the 2022 and 2023 Waiting List Action Plans to tackle these waiting lists. This investment has supported an increase in the number of spinal procedures undertaken in both 2022 and...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...increase in the number of procedures carried out in recent years; and — the Government is committed to improving the waiting time for children seeking care; notes that: — the Government allocated €19 million of current and capital funding to help tackle these waiting lists by creating additional capacity; — the €19 million investment supported an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the next phase of implementation of Sláintecare from 2024 onwards is also at an advanced stage of development. The Government remains fully committed to the continued delivery of Sláintecare reform. The 2024 Health Budget provided €22.5 billion to build on the significant reform progress made to date, to continue the delivery and expansion of quality, affordable healthcare...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (31 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...for the provision of services to medical card and GP visit card holders, are required under their contract to make suitable arrangements for emergencies outside normal practice hours. Over 2,500 GPs currently hold a GMS contract, and while they are not obliged to, most GPs participate in GP Out of Hours cooperatives to meet their outside of practice hours service requirements. A robust...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...target of achieving a 10% reduction in the number of patients breaching the Sláintecare waiting times was exceeded, with an 11% reduction achieved, and the target of removing approximately 1.66 million patients from waiting lists in 2023 was exceeded by 5%. This covers inpatients, day case, outpatients and GI scopes. Since the pandemic peaks there has been a 27%reduction in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...needs of patients. Staffing at the hospital is now approx. 2,707 WTE (November 2023), an increase of 39% since December 2019. The hospital’s budget has increased by 33.3% since 2019 to €268.3 million in 2023, a significant increase in funding in this time period. The Programme for Government committed to the delivery of a second Cath Lab in University Hospital Waterford...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...to improve healthcare for women across the country. There have been a number of key developments since the establishment of the Women’s Health Taskforce and the Women’s Health Action Plan 2022-23.Contraception: The free contraception scheme for women was launched in September 2022, initially for those aged 17-25. The scheme has been gradually expanded to include women aged 31...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...core target of achieving a 10% reduction in the number of patients breaching the Sláintecare waiting times was exceeded, with an 11% reduction achieved, and the target of removing approximately 1.66 million patients from waiting lists in 2023 was exceeded by 5%. This covers inpatients, day case, outpatients and GI scopes. Since the pandemic peaks there has been a 27%reduction in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...2023 Waiting List Action Plan builds on the foundational work done in the 2021 and 2022 plans, both of which reversed the annual trend of rising waiting lists. For 2023, funding totalling €443 million is being allocated to tackle Waiting Lists with €363 million of this being allocated to the 2023 Waiting List Action Plan, to reduce hospital waiting lists by implementing...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...declaring we were "at war", I wonder with whom we are at war. With our international healthcare workers? Children's Health Ireland at Temple Street, where the children were cared for, has people of 65 nationalities working there; Irish, of course, being just one of those. We are very fortunate to have healthcare workers from all over the world. As I said in the Dáil last night,...