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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...to specialist complex care through multidisciplinary teams. This Model of Care will ensure that women receive timely and effective treatment through 2 supra-regional specialist centres in Tallaght and Cork supported by 5 regional endometriosis hubs in The Rotunda, Coombe, NMH, Limerick and Galway. All hubs and supra-regional sites are currently operational and taking referrals. It...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...ensure that women receive timely, and effective treatment through by 5 regional endometriosis hubs in The Rotunda, Coombe, NMH, Limerick and Galway and 2 supra-regional specialist centres in Tallaght and Cork. All hubs and supra-regional sites are currently operational and taking referrals. GP referrals for the endometriosis care pathway will be through general gynaecology services....

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...to practise dentistry in Ireland, with additional graduates from other countries also registering. According to recent figures obtained, in 2022 90 Dentistry graduates were produced from both University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin. Fifty of these graduated from UCC, while forty graduated from TCD. The number of dentists being trained will need to increase over the coming...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (25 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...provision of health services such as services under the Primary Childhood Immunisation Scheme or National Cancer Screening Service. In relation to the numbers of HSE contacted GPs working in Cork, as this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...complex care. The framework provides for five regional hubs, including Galway (UHG) to coordinate care within the maternity networks. These regional hubs support two supra-regional sites in Tallaght and Cork for management of complex cases of endometriosis. NWIHP has advised that all hubs and supra-regional sites are currently operational and taking referrals. Work is on-going in each...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...for money for the taxpayer. The specific requirements that must be included in a business case at the various stages of the PSC are detailed at www.gov.ie/en/publication/public-spending-code/. The Cork Dental School and Hospital has two distinct remits: the Dental School for undergraduate and postgraduate education of future dental professionals and the hospital or service element...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...Tallaght 5 Portlaoise Beaumont 6 Cavan St. James 7 Tullamore St. Vincents 8 Cork (CUH) 9 Galway (GUH) 10 Mercy 11 Kerry 12 Drogheda...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...has advised that SouthDoc's out of hours services remains available to patients and that patients continue to have access to their services. There has been no reduction in service to patients in Cork city and there are no plans to withdraw the availability of the centres in the city for when in-person consultations are deemed clinically necessary.

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...CHI at Tallaght 36,240 33,835 CHI at Temple Street* 50,606 32,671 Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown 50,111 50,943 Cork University Hospital 72,948 78,174 Letterkenny University Hospital 47,667 52,714 Mater Misericordiae University...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ... scheme first introduced for women aged between 17 and 25; the scheme has been gradually extended to include women aged 17-31 inclusive since 1st January 2024.Six Regional Fertility Hubs are now operational (National Maternity Hospital, Coombe, Rotunda, Galway University Hospital, Cork University Maternity Hospital and NenaghInvestment was allocated to publicly funded Assisted Human...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...HospitalHSE Dublin and Midlands and HSE Dublin and South-East - St. James Hospital/St. Vincent’s University HospitalHSE South-West – via post allocated to CHI to deliver clinical services in CorkHSE Mid-West – via post allocated to CHI to deliver clinical services in Limerick1 Consultant Clinical Geneticist to each of the following locations:HSE West and North-West -...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...HospitalHSE Dublin and Midlands and HSE Dublin and South-East - St. James Hospital / St. Vincent’s University HospitalHSE South-West – via post allocated to CHI to deliver clinical services in CorkHSE Mid-West – via post allocated to CHI to deliver clinical services in Limerick1 Consultant Clinical Geneticist to each of the following locations:HSE West and North-West -...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (31 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the statutory body with responsibility for the national blood supply. In terms of full-time blood donation clinics, the IBTS operates 3 fixed whole blood donation centres (2 in Dublin and 1 in Cork) and 2 platelet apheresis clinics (Dublin and Cork). The opening hours of these centres are spread across the working week, Monday to Friday generally between the hours 10am to 6pm (or...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...care professionals can fully handle end to end a very sizeable number of patients who previously had been waiting to see a consultant. The Deputy made reference to the buses of people going from Cork and Kerry up to Northern Ireland for cataract treatment. That will become a thing of the past. In Ballincollig, there is a new state-of-the-art facility which will see a significant number...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The next thing the Chair raised was the elective hospitals for Cork and Galway. The preliminary business case, as he will be aware, was approved just over a year ago for St. Stephen's Hospital as the preferred site in Cork, and Merlin Park as the preferred site in Galway. A lot work has been going on. Since then, the HSE is progressing the procurement for the design team, which will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (24 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...radiotherapy (SABR), and brachytherapy. Brachytherapy is available in all three public Radiotherapy centres and Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) is available in Dublin, with the delivery of this service in Cork and Galway currently in development. Some Irish patients have been referred through the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS) to trial centres for HIFU treatment.

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...onwards. Funding was allocated to hospices that make up the Voluntary Hospice Group: Our Lady’s Hospice and Care Services, Harold’s Cross, Blackrock and Wicklow; St Francis Hospice, Raheny and Blanchardstown; Marymount Hospice, Cork; Milford Care Centre, Limerick; North West Hospice, Sligo; and Galway Hospice. The redesignation of the four adult hospice organisations...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...3 Clinical Nurse Specialists and a Clerical Officer Grade IV for the Specialist team in Childrens Health Ireland Crumlin. These posts are partially recruited.The creation of 4 Regional Paediatricians with a Special Interest in Palliative Medicine for Waterford, Cork, Limerick and Galway to enhance regional leadership and support professionals delivering palliative care to children in their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: .... A very comprehensive system is in place. One of the areas where we actually do well in e-health is in the maternity services. Just last year, five new postnatal hubs opened at hospitals in Cork, Kerry, Sligo, Ballinasloe and Carlow-Kilkenny. While we will, therefore, resolve the issue the Deputy has quite rightly raised, he should rest assured that we are going to continue to...