Written answers
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Department of Health
Hospital Appointments Status
Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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416. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who was referred to University Hospital Waterford on 9 January 2015, their referral was triaged as urgent, will be scheduled for surgery. [39385/16]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual.
The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2014, has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has been adopted by the HSE, sets out the processes that hospitals are to implement to manage waiting lists.
In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
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