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Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1157. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a status update regarding the establishment of a Commission on Care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47633/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1158. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to enable hospitals to block book home care hours, in order to enable providers to plan strategically and ensure that there are carers available to support timely discharge of patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47634/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1159. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to ensure that homecare providers are paid for a month when a client pauses receiving care to ensure that the homecare workers remain assigned to the client; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47635/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1160. To ask the Minister for Health if will give due consideration to incentivising providers and carers to deliver care in rural areas (similar to the Australian Modified Monash Model which measures the remoteness and population size on scale of 1-7, i.e., major city to very remote); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47636/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1161. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to establishing a forum with regard to waiting list numbers across Community Health Organisations, for the purposes of developing best practice guidelines on waiting list management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47637/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1329. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of the number of invitation letters issued for BreastCheck appointments, and the number of attendances at BreastCheck appointments, by county, for the period 2016 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48592/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1330. To ask the Minister for Health to extend the cycle of care for children aged under eight years with an asthma diagnosis, to all people under the age of 18 years, with or without a GP card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48594/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1331. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expand access to the chronic disease management programme to all adults aged 18 years or over, with or without a GP visit card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1332. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ringfence dedicated funding for the purposes of recruiting additional respiratory physiologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48596/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1333. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to expanding the National Fund for Biologic Medication for severe asthma (to include Anti-igE and Anti-il-4il-1 3 biologic treatment); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48597/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1334. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to expanding the number of advanced nurse practitioners WTE posts by 112 in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48598/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1342. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm when a child who has been fostered (details supplied) will receive an appointment for a speech and language therapist, considering that this service is urgently needed by the child given their circumstances and that their foster guardians have been informed that it could take up to 18 months for this service to be provided; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1357. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take the necessary steps to enable a registered nurse to sign a declaration of death form for a patient who passes away in hospital or nursing home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48786/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1358. To ask the Minister for Health to provide confirmation in relation to the anticipated start date for the newly appointed psychiatrist in CAMHS Infirmary Road, Cork (which serves the area of Cork North Central); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48787/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1359. To ask the Minister for Health to provide information in relation to the days per week that a psychiatrist is employed in CAMHS, Infirmary Road, Cork (which serves the area of Cork North Central); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48788/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1360. To ask the Minister for Health to outline what contingency measures are in place in circumstances where a psychiatrist employed by CAMHS is absent from work due to illness, in particular in cases where children have started medication and require adjustment/alteration of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48789/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1361. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details in relation to the anticipated timescale for computerisation of CAMHS cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48790/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1362. To ask the Minister for Health what contingency measures his Department has in place in relation to cancellation of appointments with CAMHS psychiatrists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48791/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1363. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the relaunching of a public awareness campaign targeted at mitigating cancer risk, in particular the importance of education regarding exercise, maintaining a healthy body weight and reducing alcohol intake, in light of recent data which places Ireland as having the second highest rate of incidence of cancer among the 27 EU Member...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: 1364. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Pembrolizumab, used in the treatment of triple negative breast cancer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48793/23]