Results 1-14 of 14 for drugs speaker:Jennifer Whitmore

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 Jul 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: 826. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the terms of reference for the HSE review of access to Cariban under the drug payment scheme for sufferers of hyperemesis; who is leading the review and what stakeholders have been consulted for the purposes for the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34188/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Jun 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...Health the number of women who have been approved for cariban on a month-by-month basis to date in 2023; the cost accrued by the State to date for the provision of this medication via the community drug scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31782/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (30 Mar 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...put in place to ensure that women suffering from hyperemesis have access to the medication. The only exceptional thing about this system is that it is exceptionally bad. Women cannot access the drug under the drugs payment scheme unless they see their consultants, and that is an impossibility in the current medical system. It takes 16 weeks to see the consultant. It is okay for women...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (30 Mar 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...through. There is relief. Relief can be found in medications such as Cariban. I recognise that inroads have been made on the side of the Government and that Cariban was made available under the drugs payment scheme in the new year. This was very much welcomed at the time but the system that has been put in place by the HSE means, essentially, that it is impossible for the majority of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...rather than suffering for the entire pregnancy with this illness, and suffering post-traumatic distress and considering suicide: that is what happens when you have hyperemesis. There is a drug that can help with this but the Government has made it so difficult to access this drug under the drug payment scheme that it is virtually impossible to do so. There is no medical or licensing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (31 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...concerning. The first is that it is quite a hands-off response. It sort of says, "We have done what we can do and now it is up to the clinicians and the people suffering from this to lobby the drug manufacturers to get them to put the application in." That is not good enough. There is an issue. If, as the Minister of State says, the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, recognises it as an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (31 Jan 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: .... Hyperemesis Ireland campaigned to make Cariban a free medication for women. It is welcome that last year the Government recognised that campaign and made that medication free and available on the drugs payment scheme. That change was brought in on 1 January this year. Unfortunately, the joy and relief that came with that was very short-lived because the reality is the system that has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (6 Dec 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...for Health the rationale behind the need for Cariban to be initially prescribed by a consultant obstetrician for hyperemesis gravidarum sufferers in order for them to be able to avail of the drug reimbursement scheme, as committed to in budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60638/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Sep 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 301. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of the drug pembro; the reason that some health insurance companies do not cover the drug; the way that a patient can avail of it if their health provider does not cover payment of the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45266/22]

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...between politicians and industrial lobbyists, a relationship that has proven incompatible with our climate, our future and the sustainability of our local communities. It is time to wean ourselves off this most addictive drug.

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...advocating the phasing-in rather than the phasing-out of fossil fuels in Ireland. Ireland, like other rich countries, is addicted to oil and it is this addiction we must fix, not providing more of the drug, which the motion suggests. Yes, we do need robust policies to develop our energy supplies and there are concerns regarding energy security - some related to the war in Ukraine and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: I have a question for the Minister for Health. Some 35 children with cystic fibrosis, CF, between the ages of six and 11 have been excluded from accessing the life-changing CF drug therapy, Kaftrio. There was no expectation that these children would be excluded from this drug therapy and the news has come as a crushing blow for the parents and children. Will the Minister confirm if it is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1878. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a full-time coordinator for the Bray local drugs and alcohol task force which has been without a coordinator for three and a half years out of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2215/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (24 Feb 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 784. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) is being considered by the HSE drugs payment group for reimbursement; and if so, the status of the application. [9487/21]