Written answers

Tuesday, 21 October 2014

Photo of Pat RabbittePat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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453. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the outcome, morbidity or mortality, for sub arachnoid haemorrhage patients who are not accepted for emergency neurosurgical or endovascular treatment in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40289/14]

Photo of Pat RabbittePat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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454. To ask the Minister for Health those responsible for the safety of patients who suffer an aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage who are brought to hospitals which cannot provide emergency neurosurgical treatment, and are referred but not accepted for treatment in the National Referral Centre for Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dubin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40290/14]

Photo of Pat RabbittePat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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455. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the claim by Beaumont Hospital that it has no responsibility for patients it does not accept for neurosurgical or endovascular treatment, despite the National Referral Centre for Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, being the only centre, other than Cork University Hospital, which can provide emergency neurosurgical treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40291/14]

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 453 to 455, inclusive, together.

In relation to the detailed queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to him directly.

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