Results 41-60 of 235 for lyme disease

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Diseases (19 Jan 2022)

Pauline Tully: 1710. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that were tested for Lyme disease here in each of the years 2017 to 2021; the number of persons that were diagnosed with Lyme disease over the same period; the number of staff employed in this area; the type of tests carried out for Lyme disease here; if these tests are routine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1399/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (19 Oct 2021)

Róisín Shortall: ...private patients do not receive differing medical advice from different consultants due to consultants following different testing criteria or accreditation standards in relation to diagnoses of Lyme disease; if measures will be taken to ensure that all consultants dealing with private patients work within or follow the same testing criteria and accreditation standards in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 Oct 2021)

Holly Cairns: 680. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure the timely diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease by medical professionals. [48141/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (29 Sep 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 262. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue in relation to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47174/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (9 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

David Cullinane: 1468. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken regarding the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of Lyme disease and to ensure that persons suffering with Lyme disease or chronic Lyme disease are being properly supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43109/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (27 Jul 2021)

David Cullinane: 2200. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken regarding the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of Lyme disease and to ensure that persons suffering with Lyme disease or chronic Lyme disease are being properly supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36947/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (30 Jun 2021)

David Cullinane: 278. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken regarding the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of Lyme disease and to ensure that persons suffering with Lyme disease or chronic Lyme disease are being properly supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28195/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (31 Mar 2021)

Verona Murphy: 892. To ask the Minister for Health the steps actively being taken to provide a much improved testing system for Lyme disease here to ensure early diagnosis of the debilitating disease and to prevent misdiagnosis and late diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16434/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (24 Mar 2021) See 2 other results from this answer

Michael Healy-Rae: 1485. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to the level of testing in Ireland for Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14385/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (3 Mar 2021)

James Browne: 784. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of Lyme disease here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11259/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Feb 2021)

Peter Burke: 908. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medications prescribed for a person (details supplied) with Lyme disease are not covered by a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7197/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Disease Management (13 Jan 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if awareness signs on the dangers of Lyme disease are in place in all national parks across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1677/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (13 Jan 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 1063. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the October 2019 report of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, Lyme Borreliosis Subcommittee; the action his Department has taken in the meantime to improve testing, diagnosis, treatment and management of Lyme disease on foot of the report; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (22 Oct 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Healy-Rae: 80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Parks and Wildlife Services provides information on the dangers of lyme disease to staff (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32148/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (8 Sep 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

James Browne: 1141. To ask the Minister for Health if Lyme disease will be recognised as a long-term illness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21441/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (16 Jun 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Lou McDonald: 714. To ask the Minister for Health if his officials will consider the way in which to raise awareness of Lyme disease with the general public who are now exercising outdoors more frequently during the Covid-19 emergency. [11570/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (13 May 2020)

Simon Harris: The HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) is responsible for the surveillance of notifiable infectious diseases such as Lyme disease. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the HPSC established a Lyme Borreliosis Subcommittee to look at ways of increasing public awareness. Part of the work of the Subcommittee is to ensure that all GPs are familiar with identifying and managing Lyme...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 Mar 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 631. To ask the Minister for Health the approach of his Department and the HSE to requests for persons suffering with Lyme disease or chronic Lyme disease to be properly supported by the health authorities here; and the reason there is no joint approach between health authorities and local authorities that have erected signage warning of the dangers of ticks. [2989/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (27 Nov 2019) See 1 other result from this answer

Peter Burke: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person (details supplied) can access treatment for lyme disease when appropriate services are unavailable here; if the person can access the cross border directive to seek appropriate treatment abroad; the options available for persons who continue to suffer from the disease after accessing all treatments available here; and if he will...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...those people to engage and facilitate a sweeping for ticks on an annual basis and the assessing of those ticks for infection in terms of carrying Borrelia bacteria, which are at the root of much Lyme disease that we hear about in our constituencies. We all need to get with the programme for forestry. We need to diversify what we are planting in the way Deputy Eamon Ryan set out by...