Results 1-20 of 91 for drugs speaker:Mary Butler

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: ...activities, transport and individual items and services such as specialised laundry, newspapers and hairdressing. A person's eligibility for other schemes, such as the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme, is unaffected by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. In determining the services covered by the NHSS it was considered very important that the care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jul 2024)

Mary Butler: ...-based service is available to all residents in nursing homes and Community Nursing Units nationwide. It should also be noted that a nursing home resident's eligibility for other schemes, such as the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme, is unaffected by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. This means that nursing home residents who also have medical cards...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (26 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: ...of “a registered medical practitioner, registered dentist or registered pharmacist” for “a registered medical practitioner or registered dentist”.”. Section 59 of the Act concerns drugs, medicines and appliances. In introducing prescribing activity for pharmacists through these amendments, it is prudent to include a registered pharmacist in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: ...-based service is available to all residents in nursing homes and Community Nursing Units nationwide. It should also be noted that a nursing home resident's eligibility for other schemes, such as the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme, is unaffected by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. This means that nursing home residents who also have medical cards...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Admissions (13 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: ...to their home, the Pathfinder is available in Limerick. It avoids the hospital emergency department. They come to the home and they are able to provide all the tests. They are able to provide IV drugs. They are able to do the blood test, urine dip and everything that is needed. The Minister, Deputy Donnelly, and I are anxious to continue to roll that out across the country. It really...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: ...-based service is available to all residents in nursing homes and Community Nursing Units nationwide. It should also be noted that a nursing home resident's eligibility for other schemes, such as the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme, is unaffected by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. This means that nursing home residents who also have medical cards...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (30 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ...-based service is available to all residents in nursing homes and Community Nursing Units nationwide. It should also be noted that a nursing home resident's eligibility for other schemes, such as the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme, is unaffected by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. This means that nursing home residents who also have medical cards...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (9 May 2024)

Mary Butler: An older person with a urinary tract or kidney infection who needs intravenous drugs and fluids can be brought to the community nursing unit and avoid the emergency department in Limerick. Please God, they will be back home with their loved ones within 48 to 72 hours. It is not a decision that was taken lightly, but it was taken for the greater good to try to support the emergency...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (9 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ...medical supervision; and severe refractory treatment-resistant epilepsy that has failed to respond to standard anticonvulsant medications while under expert medical supervision. The Misuse of Drugs (Prescription and Control of Supply of Cannabis for Medical Use) Regulations 2019 set out the legal provisions for the operation of the MCAP and the legal obligations for healthcare...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (2 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ...his question. I also congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Colm Burke, as I know the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, also does, on sitting here beside us answering questions on public health and drugs. On the Deputy's question, voluntary organisations form an essential and integral part of the overall health and social care system. Historically, the voluntary sector was the first to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (25 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...activities, transport and individual items and services such as specialised laundry, newspapers and hairdressing. A person's eligibility for other schemes, such as the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme, is unaffected by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. In determining the services covered by the NHSS it was considered very important that the care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...activities, transport and individual items and services such as specialised laundry, newspapers and hairdressing. A person's eligibility for other schemes, such as the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme, is unaffected by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. In determining the services covered by the NHSS it was considered very important that the care...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Museum Projects (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...She undertook thousands of fisheries patrol days over the course of her service. Like all Naval Service vessels,LÉ Eithnewas multi-tasked and also had the ability to undertake general surveillance, search and rescue, diving operations, drugs interdiction and other duties while conducting her primary day-to-day task of providing a fishery protection service. A number of disposal...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...on track to achieve; — the sustained funding of cancer research of €37.6 million between 2020 and 2023, which represents 14 per cent of the Health Research Board's overall funding portfolio; — the funding allocated in the last three years to new medicines, including 61 cancer drugs, of €98 million, and the total spend on cancer drugs in the last three years of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...activities, transport and individual items and services such as specialised laundry, newspapers and hairdressing. A person's eligibility for other schemes, such as the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme, is unaffected by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. In determining the services covered by the NHSS it was considered very important that the care...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: ...medicines last year, which is a new record. This is in the context of a total health budget of €22.5 billion, which is another record. At the same time, however, it is a person who needs that orphan drug, for example, and it will make a difference to that person's life. The Deputy said that in August 2023, the NCPE completed a rapid review of Vutrisiran, the factors of which are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2024)

Mary Butler: ...medicines, and new uses of existing medicines to be funded or reimbursed. In August 2023 the NCPE completed a rapid review of vutrisiran. Factors evaluated during rapid review include the cost of the drug relative to potential comparators, uncertainty relating to comparative clinical effectiveness, uncertainty relating to cost effectiveness and the potential drug budget impact. On this...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (7 Feb 2024)

Mary Butler: ...cancer strategy is evidenced by significant investment in recent years. New development funding of €20 million was allocated to cancer services and €15 million was allocated for new cancer drugs in 2021 and 2022.This increased total funding for cancer services in 2022 to €139 million. To date, this funding has supported the recruitment of 393 additional staff in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: ..., newspapers and hairdressing. This may also include medical services such as therapies and some medical equipment. A person's eligibility for other schemes, such as the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme, is unaffected by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. In determining the services covered by the NHSS it was considered very important that the care...

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

Mary Butler: ...people with medical cards and 185,000 discretionary cards, so 1.8 million people have medical cards. A huge proportion of those are older people who would depend very much on their medical card for drugs. That also includes the drugs payment scheme, where families can pay up to €80 a month for the drugs they get from the pharmacy. All of that is factored in as well. We are...