Written answers
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Department of Health
Hospital Appointments Status
James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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329. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive urgent prioritisation for scoliosis treatment here. [42636/17]
James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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330. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department and the HSE have assisted a person (details supplied). [42637/17]
James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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331. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department and the HSE plan to assist a person (details supplied). [42638/17]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 329 to 331, inclusive, together.
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 scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she should take the matter up with the consultant and the hospital involved. In relation to the specific case raised, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.
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