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Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Department of Health

Departmental Reports

Photo of Niall CollinsNiall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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1055. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the name, costs, date of commission, date or expected date of publication and name of the external consultant of all external reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011. [34405/13]

Photo of James ReillyJames Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Information for the period from March 2011 to October 2012 is set out below. Information for the period from November 2012 to date is being collated and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.

Title / subject matter of reportPersons drafting reportCosts to date Has the report been completed?
National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NACD) Annual Report 2010Translator: Ariel Killick, Translation of NACD 2010 Annual report 813Report completed.
Published 05/2011
An Overview of New Psychoactive Substances and the Outlets Supplying Them (Headshop report)Editor: Brenda O'Hanlon
(published June 2011)

First Impression/Clever Cat Design (design and layout)
1,313



4,812
Report completed.
Published 06/2011
Parental Substance Misuse - Literature Review. Main report Author: Dr. Justine Horgan, Senior Researcher, NACD

Editor: Mr. David Quinn, Swiftwrite

Ovo (report design and layout)



880

1,694
Report completed.
Published 10/2011



Parental Substance Misuse - Key Messages and RecommendationsAuthor: Dr. Justine Horgan, Senior Researcher, NACD.

Ovo (design, layout and printing)
1,192Report completed.
Published 10/2011
Responding to Challenges of Substance Use Among Young PeopleAuthor: Ms. Peigin Doyle, Writer/Editor/Publicist 1,512Report completed.
Published 11/2011
The Potency of THC in Cannabis Products
(Working Paper Series, No. 1)
Author: Ms Colette Arnold, Forensic Science Laboratory

Ovo (Working paper series design, layout, printing)
841Report completed.
Published 11/2011
Research into methods and data
sources for the estimation of
prevalence of problematic opiate
and cocaine use in Ireland (Working Paper Series, No. 2)
Commissioned by NACD. Work carried out by Gannon, Hay & McKell. Paid for prior to February 2011

Clever Cat Design (report design, layout, printing)
1,065Report completed.
Published 12/2011
Protocol for National Substance Misuse Rehabilitation Cohort Study (Working Paper Series, No. 3)Commissioned by NACD. Work carried out by Gannon, Hay & McKeganey. Paid for prior to February 2011

Clever Cat Design (report design, layout, printing)






830
Report completed
Published 12/2011
A Family Affair - Supporting Children Living with Parental Substance Misuse. A Report of the Conference Author: Ms. Peigin Doyle, Writer/Editor/Publicist

Ovo (report design and layout)
2,602



553
Report completed
Published 01/2012
General Population Survey on Drug Prevalence 2010/11
Technical report
Work carried out by IPSOS MORI. Paid for prior February 2011

Publisher: CleverCat (design and layout)




423
Reported completed
Published 02/2012
Study on the prevalence of drug use, including intravenous drug use and blood borne viruses among the Irish prisoner populationAuthors: Dr. A. Drummond, Dr. M. Codd, Ms N. Donnelly, Mr. D. McCausland, Dr. J Mehegan, L.Daly and Professor C. Kelleher 115,859Report completed, not yet published.
Illicit Drug Markets in IrelandAuthor: Mr. Johnny Connolly, Research Officer, Health Research Board

Editor: Ms. Winifred Power

10,000



4,930
Report not yet completed. Currently at copy-editing stage.
Health Behaviour in School Children Report (HBSC)External (Health Promotion Research Centre-NUI Galway)100,641
Yes
School Survey Project on Alcohol and Drugs (ESPAD)External
( Mark Morgan, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin)
22,687Yes
National Narcolepsy Study Steering Committee Report - Study of increase incidence of narcolepsy in young people following receipt of H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccinationHSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre - Dr Darina O'Flanagan (Chair of Steering Committee)NilYes. Report was published on Department's website in April 2012
Positive ageing: indicators of well-being in older peopleHealth Research BoardNilReport not yet completed.
Towards a Restraint Free Environment in Nursing Homes - a Policy DocumentGeraldine Fitzpatrick PO (Chair),
Michael Smith, AP, Sheila O'Malley, Chief Nursing Advisor,
Marita Kinsella, Chief Pharmacist,
Noreen Quinn, Pharmacist,
Dr Colette Bonner, DCMO, (all DoH);
Dr Shaun O'Keeffe, Geriatrician, University College Hospital Galway; Ann Ryan, Inspector Manager, &
Vicky Blomfield, Regional Operations Manager, both HIQA;
Suzanne Cahill, Director of Dementia Services Information and Development Centre's research programme at Trinity College Dublin;
Ann Coyle, Planning Specialist for Older People, HSE;
Sinéad Fitzpatrick, Practice Development Facilitator &
Vena Doyle, Practice Development Facilitator, Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI)
Department paid for printing and translation costs - 2,075 Yes and published 4 October 2011
High Level Issues Analysis of the Nursing Homes Support SchemeAccentureNo costs incurredYes
Strategic Framework for Role Expansion of Nurses and Midwives: Promoting Quality Patient CareSheila O'Malley (Chief Nursing Officer in this Dept. who retired February 2012) and Steering Group with members from various outside agencies.8,567
(printing costs)
Yes
National Policy & Strategy for the Provision of Neuro-Rehabilitation Services in Ireland 2011 - 2015Drafted by Department Staff - James O'Grady - now retired

Editing and Proofing by Ms. Carole Devanney

Formatting, Design & Printing by Brunswick Press
Cost for editing and proofing
2,890


Cost for formatting, design and printing of 200 copies 6,738
Yes - Published Dec 2011
Commissioned to undertake a review of the Irish private health insurance market in relation to the options which may exist for rebalancing. Goodbody Stockbrokers and Matheson Ormsby Prentice Solicitors300,080Yes
Further Analysis of Options in relation to the restructuring of the Private Health Insurance MarketGoodbody Stockbrokers and Matheson Ormsby Prentice SolicitorsNot available as yetDraft report under consideration
Review of Parliamentary and Legislative Processes by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Report drafted by Mr Owen Jacob, Principal Officer, Business Consulting Unit, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform - Assistance was provided by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC)18,020
(PWC)
Yes
All Ireland Traveller Health Study (AITHS)UCD, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science139,000
paid in 2011.
Yes
Evaluation of the Suboxone Feasibility StudyCreate Consultancy Ltd.
External Consultants
A total of 10,863 was spent in 2011.Yes
Financial Report on the HSEMark Ogden€15,851Yes
Development of a Model of Demand and Supply of GP and Practice Nurse Services in the Republic of IrelandTrinity College Dublin30,552
Yes
Financial Management in the HSEPA Consulting182,980Yes
TOTAL€990,263

Comments

Adrian Creegan
Posted on 25 Jul 2013 1:16 pm (Report this comment)

There is no expected date of publication for reports not already published. Does the department have no target date in this case, even for those reports that are complete?

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