Results 721-740 of 10,617 for speaker:Colm Burke

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1514. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase investment in mental health, including children’s mental health, to ensure that the overall annual allocation for mental health is in line with recommendations made by the WHO and under Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56623/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1515. To ask the Minister for Health if he will create a ring-fenced budget for children’s mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56624/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1516. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to ensure that expenditure on children’s mental health is made more visible and transparent, including in the annual health budget and via the HSE’s National Service Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56625/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1517. To ask the Minister for Health to provide specific data to identify and track how funds allocated to children’s mental health are spent and what the associated outcomes are for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56626/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1518. To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place a standard operating procedure across all CAMHS teams, without exception, ensuring that all children in all areas receive the same high-quality service and that all staff members are following the same referral criteria in order to guarantee the same quality of care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56627/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1519. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the operation of CAMHS in line with Mental Health Commission recommendations, noting that the current model of care places the onus on a single professional; if he will consider a more multi-disciplinary approach in line with other European countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56628/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1520. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate professional misconduct within CAMHS in a timely manner in order that the trust of parents and children may be restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56629/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1521. To ask the Minister for Health if will consider establishing a national heart failure registry to equip planners and healthcare professionals with the necessary information for the purposes of reducing excessive mortality and curtail hospital admission rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56631/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1522. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to expanding psychological support services to heart failure patients, currently available in only four hospitals in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56632/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1523. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to ensure that all heart failure patients are eligible for a medical card and to remove prescription charges, in light of the significant financial pressure faced by sufferers and the anxiety caused by a condition that results in the death of over one in three sufferers within five years; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1524. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate funding for the investment in practical, social and emotional supports in the community for heart failure patients for the purposes of reducing readmissions and improve quality of life for same, given that such community supports currently do not receive any statutory funding and should be recognised as an integral part of heart failure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1525. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for his Department and the HSE to undertake a full assessment of the economic impact of heart failure on patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56636/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1562. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the key recommendations set out in an online submission by an organisation (details supplied) to CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56888/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1563. To ask the Minister for Health that due consideration be given to the development of clarity around the nature of the work of psychotherapists, in particular including the differentiation between psychotherapists from counsellors, as per the key recommendations set out in a submission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56889/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1564. To ask the Minister for Health that due consideration be given to the setting of the threshold level of entry to the register for psychotherapists at level 9 on the NFQ and that additional proficiencies be added as described in a submission (details supplied) to address the higher educational level, clinical supervision as integral to the programme and personal and professional growth...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1565. To ask the Minister for Health if due consideration will be given to the inclusion within the framing of training programmes for psychotherapists of personal psychotherapy/personal psychotherapeutic experience, as per the key recommendations set out in a submission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56891/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1566. To ask the Minister for Health if due consideration will be given to revisiting of details around direct observation of clinical practice within training, as per the key recommendations set out in a submission made by an organisation (details supplied) to CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56892/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1567. To ask the Minister for Health if due will be given to the revisiting of details around practice placement context and clinical supervision, as per the key recommendations set out in a submission made by an organisation (details supplied) to CORU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56893/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1634. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for fentanyl as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date in 2024, in tabular form. [1055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for codeine as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date in 2024, in tabular form. [1056/24]