Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 234: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive will invest in a physiological observation and trigger system as recommended by the review team in their report into the death of persons (details supplied) at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; when the hospital will have such a unit in place; and the reason for the delay in providing such a unit to date. [38159/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the Health Service Executive will provide adequate training and resources to ensure patient care is dictated by their needs; if it is policy to ensure such care will commence upon the recognition of patients estimated ICSI level of care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38160/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 236: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the maternity unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda will review its strategy for care of critically ill women. [38161/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 237: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the lead clinician will be clearly identifiable for the care of each patient in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; when clear instructions and observation goals and appropriate responses will be given by lead clinicians to the case midwife or nurse and medical team; when it will be incumbent on the primary consultant and their team to ensure timely follow-up of all tests; and the way this will be audited. [38162/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 238: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when guidelines will be put in place as policy for diagnosing and managing ruptured membranes in patients at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [38163/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 239: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when it will become procedural for advice to be documented if patients are being allowed home or sent home with suspected or confirmed ruptured membranes at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [38164/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 240: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when medical and midwifery staffing levels will become commensurate with the recommendations from Safer Children 2007 at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [38165/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 241: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken by the Health Service Executive, since receiving the report of the review group into the death of persons (details supplied) at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, to streamline its process to ensure safe staffing levels at the hospital. [38166/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 242: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a programme of continual assessment of staffing levels, skill mix and workload will be put in place at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [38167/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 243: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will adopt the international surviving sepsis campaign, particularly at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [38168/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 244: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps being taken to provide safe patient care in the anaesthesia department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [38169/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 245: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken by the Health Service Executive, since receiving the report of the review group at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, to develop a consistent and professional methodology for investigating and managing serious adverse events. [38170/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 246: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there is a review underway of workload distribution in the obstetric department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [38171/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 247: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken by the Health Service Executive at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, since receiving the report of the review group, to ensure protected time is given to consultants, midwives and nursing managers for administrative duties at the hospital. [38172/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 248: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will recruit and put in place administrative and clerical support for clinicians in management roles at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [38173/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps that have been taken at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, since receiving the report of the review group, to ensure the assistance of a clinical haematologist is sought at an early stage when dealing with coagulopathies at the hospital. [38174/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the ward round is recognised by the Health Service Executive as the primary mechanism for direct multi-disciplinary communication; and when a midwife will become involved in the ward round at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [38175/08]

Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she or officials in her Department were presented with the report into the death of persons (details supplied) at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if so, the date in each case when they were presented. [38176/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 234 to 251, inclusive, together.

The Deputy's questions appear to relate to a review carried out by the Health Service Executive (HSE) into the circumstances pertaining to the deaths of persons at our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and the resulting recommendations of the relevant Review Group. Neither I nor officials in my Department have received a copy of the full report. However, an executive summary of the Report and recommendations was published by the HSE on its website. I wish to again extend my sympathy to the family of the deceased on their sad loss.

My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the specific issues relating to the recommendations of the Review investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.