Written answers
Tuesday, 8 May 2018
- Nursing Staff Data
244. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of superannuation contributions paid by nurses of all disciplines in each of the years from 2015 to 2017, respectively; and if he will make a... - Health Services Staff Data
247. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapy, speech and language and child psychology posts vacant; the locations of each; the length of time they have been vacant; the... - Hospital Appointments Administration
248. To ask the Minister for Health if three MRI scans can be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [19614/18] - Hospital Appointments Status
249. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a physiological assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19624/18] - Health Services Provision
250. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that patients (details supplied) cannot avail of a specific HSE service; and if the matter will be examined. [19635/18] - Health Services Staff Data
251. To ask the Minister for Health further to the announcement on 9 June 2017 regarding the recruitment of 114 assistant psychologists, the number of the 114 who are newly recruited front-line... - Orthodontic Services
253. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for an orthodontic appointment. [19659/18] - Child and Adult Mental Health Services Reports
254. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that no annual report has been published by CAMHS since 2013. [19661/18] - Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
255. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting lists for occupational therapy assessments for children between the ages of six and 18 with autism by CHO in tabular form; and if he will make a... - Autism Support Services
257. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the child psychology posts at University Hospital Waterford under relevant headings (details supplied) to support children between the ages of... - Hospital Staff Recruitment
261. To ask the Minister for Health if the post of diabetes clinical nurse specialist has been filled in Letterkenny University Hospital following a recent retirement; and if he will make a... - Civil Registration Service
263. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to make additional resources available to County Kerry for civil registration appointments, including the appointment of additional... - Medical Card Applications
264. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied). [19680/18] - Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
265. To ask the Minister for Health if transplant patients who must take immunosuppressant medication for the rest of their lives following transplantations will be covered under the long-term... - Psychological Services
266. To ask the Minister for Health the access persons with type 1 diabetes attending Letterkenny University Hospital have to psychology services; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
267. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to ensure that each child in County Donegal diagnosed with type 1 diabetes under five years of age will have access to start... - Mental Health Services Provision
268. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) can expect to receive a place in a suitable mental health facility for further supportive interventions; and if he will make a... - Health Services Provision
269. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a diabetes centre of excellence for the north west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19693/18] - Cancer Screening Programmes
270. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff manning the CervicalCheck helpline; his views on whether this is the necessary number of staff to deal with the level of calls to the... - Mental Health Services Data
271. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nights persons under 18 years of age spent in adult psychiatric wards here in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by month,... - Hospital Staff Recruitment
272. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the position of hospital medical officer at Saint Patrick's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary, remains unfilled despite the fact that it has been... - General Practitioner Services
273. To ask the Minister for Health if there is access to general practitioner services midweek after 6 p.m. in Castlebar, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19712/18] - General Practitioner Services Provision
275. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners work out of hours in the primary care centre in Castlebar, County Mayo; if not, the reason therefor; if arrangements for general... - Hospital Waiting Lists
279. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a surgical procedure carried out in St. James's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19719/18] - Cancer Screening Programmes
280. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention was drawn during court proceedings to the HSE legal strategy regarding a case (details supplied) against clinical pathology laboratories; and... - Hospital Waiting Lists
283. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to reduce the waiting times for outpatient rheumatology appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19744/18] - Health Services Staff Recruitment
284. To ask the Minister for Health if extra consultant paediatric rheumatology consultants will be appointed in order that the World Health Organization's guidelines of six for the population is... - Hospital Waiting Lists
285. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting period for hernia surgeries in St. James's Hospital; and when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment. [19746/18] - Home Care Packages Provision
286. To ask the Minister for Health the status of home support for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19761/18] - Hospital Waiting Lists
287. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the waiting lists for scoliosis treatment; if the HSE has been successful in recruiting an additional consultant in respect of scoliosis... - Disability Services Funding
288. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided by the HSE to branches of an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry in each of the past five years; and if he will make... - Treatment Abroad Scheme
289. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting for a consultation in the United Kingdom under the treatment abroad scheme; the steps being taken to... - Child and Adult Mental Health Services
290. To ask the Minister for Health the options available in situations in which a child (details supplied) is self-harming, there are complex additional needs and services have been denied by... - Mental Health Services Staff
291. To ask the Minister for Health the reason transfers for community mental health nurses are not taking place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19776/18] - Hospital Charges
292. To ask the Minister for Health if a meeting about patients with haemochromatosis having to pay €80 per venesection or phlebotomy therapy has taken place (details supplied); if a... - Home Care Packages Funding
293. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a public health centre has no funding to provide extra home care hours for a person (details supplied); and the reason it has no funding for home... - Mental Health Services Staff
294. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels of CAMHS teams by their respective area populations compared with the staffing levels recommended in A Vision for Change; and if he will... - Mental Health Services Data
299. To ask the Minister for Health the location of each perinatal psychiatry service in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19804/18] - Maternity Services
300. To ask the Minister for Health the number of compensation payments made by the HSE on foot of incidents in maternity units in 2017, in tabular form; the amount of each individual payment;... - Patient Safety
301. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of serious reportable events in 2017 and to date in 2018 that were notified within 24 hours to a designated officer. [19807/18] - HSE Investigations
305. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to investigate a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19820/18] - Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
306. To ask the Minister for Health the turnaround time for persons applying for the fair deal scheme in counties Longford and Westmeath; if this is an average time; if there are backlogs in the... - Hospital Waiting Lists
307. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a urology inpatient procedure at Limerick University Hospital for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the... - Hospital Car Parks
308. To ask the Minister for Health if the dearth of parking at a primary care centre (details supplied) will be reviewed and remedied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19829/18] - Home Help Service Provision
309. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be granted one additional home help hour in the evenings. [19874/18] - Medical Products
310. To ask the Minister for Health the patient entitlement including product types and product costs of post-surgery products such as prosthesis swimwear, bras and so on; the application... - Drugs Payment Scheme Administration
311. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a partial refund was awarded to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19879/18] - Hospital Facilities
312. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in approving the retention of the mobile temporary diagnostic cath lab at Waterford University Hospital; the date when approval issued... - HSE Governance
313. To ask the Minister for Health when he or the CEO of the HSE first learnt of the CervicalCheck scandal; the reason he and the CEO did not know of the scandal earlier; and the systems in... - Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
314. To ask the Minister for Health the international comparison studies his Department has conducted to determine the exclusion of persons over 21 years of age from the FreeStyle Libre device;... - Disability Support Services Funding
316. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a newspaper article in relation to an organisation (details supplied); the reason for the decrease in funding for 2018 for the organisation; if... - Home Help Service Provision
317. To ask the Minister for Health if an application by a person (details supplied) for home help hours can be expedited in view of the difficult circumstances for the person and their family;... - Hospitals Building Programme
318. To ask the Minister for Health when a new primary health centre will be constructed in Cobh (details supplied) [19921/18] - Child and Adult Mental Health Services Funding
319. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which CAMHS is funded in counties Longford and Westmeath; the way in which the budget was spent in 2017; if there was an overrun or deficit in... - Mental Health Services Data
320. To ask the Minister for Health the location of services for each category of patient needing mental health services in County Louth; the waiting list for such services; the number of staff... - Medicinal Products Reimbursement
321. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the system for reimbursement of lidocaine 5% medicated plasters and make them available on the community drug scheme; and if he will make a... - National Cancer Strategy Implementation
323. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to conduct a review of the HSE following the recent CervicalCheck controversy in order to avoid the recurrence of similar incidents in the future;... - Health Service Capacity Review
324. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist in having a person (details supplied) placed back on a waiting list. [19948/18] - General Practitioner Contracts
325. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Louth that have been assigned a general practitioner by the HSE. [19954/18] - Obesity Strategy
327. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1118 and 1121 of 16 January 2018, the status of the work of the subgroup on reformulation; the terms of reference for... - Nursing Staff Recruitment
331. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the position of a stroke nurse at South Tipperary General Hospital; if there are vacancies for the position in the area; if so, the length of... - Health Services Provision
332. To ask the Minister for Health when a public consultation with persons and stakeholders on the way in which to improve cardiac services will take place; and if he will make a statement on... - National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019
336. To ask the Minister for Health if a review has been carried out or is planned of the National Cardiovascular Health Policy 2010-2019 to examine the success in implementing its... - Hospital Services
337. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 359 of 27 March 2018 and 914 of 17 April 2018, the contingency plans in place should the existing neuro interventional... - Obesity Strategy
338. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 20 February 2018, the status of the monitoring body to be designated to monitor the voluntary codes of practice on... - Medical Card Eligibility
339. To ask the Minister for Health if eligibility for a medical card will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19969/18] - Hospital Waiting Lists
340. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a procedure for person (details supplied); his plans to reduce the waiting list in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Ambulance Service
341. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his most recent meeting regarding ambulance services in south and west County Donegal; his plans to improve the level of services in County... - Cancer Screening Programmes
342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women in County Louth who were misinformed that their cervical smear tests were normal. [20015/18] - Respite Care Services
344. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20018/18] - HSE Legal Cases
345. To ask the Minister for Health the funding set aside on an annual basis for contingent liability for the past ten years to date by the HSE; the way in which the amount is determined by the... - HSE Data
346. To ask the Minister for Health if all written agreements between the HSE and an organisation (details supplied) on the provision of all services within the organisation's remit will be made... - Hospital Beds Data
347. To ask the Minister for Health the reason more beds have not been made available at Mallow General Hospital; and the reason there is spare capacity in the hospital in view of the fact that... - Orthodontic Services Provision
348. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has been referred for orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20035/18] - Medicinal Products Reimbursement
349. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) and the pharmaceutical industry regarding access to new and effective medication for... - Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
350. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, when it is the case that medical card holders of pension age are entitled to State-funded physiotherapy, transport to medical appointments,... - Health Services Provision
351. To ask the Minister for Health if the ketogenic diet will be available from Cork University Hospital to persons who could benefit from it; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Mental Health Services Expenditure
353. To ask the Minister for Health the budget available to the HSE Cork South Lee for mental health services in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20071/18] - Hospitals Policy
354. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied there is proper democratic accountability in respect of governance and budgetary oversight of all hospitals within the South-South West... - Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
355. To ask the Minister for Health when an application on behalf of a child (details supplied) in County Cork for an item of equipment was received by the HSE; when the equipment will be... - HSE Legal Cases
356. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of the HSE in respect of non-disclosure and confidentiality clauses being included in circumstances in which settlements are reached in or out of... - Cancer Screening Programmes
357. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Screening Service will implement the recommendations of the HIQA review of information management practices at BreastCheck; the timeframe for... - Hospitals Car Park Charges
358. To ask the Minister for Health the amount earned from the car park of Tallaght hospital in 2017; and the amount for 2016. [20149/18] - Hospital Waiting Lists
360. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 466 of 27 February 2018, if the two paediatric outpatient and urgent care centres in Connolly and Tallaght hospitals are... - Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
361. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in CHO area 9 who received an electric powered wheelchair in each of the years 2015 to 2017, inclusive, and to date in 2018; the average... - Home Help Service Provision
362. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase home care services in County Wexford in circumstances in which families are struggling to provide vital care necessary for their family... - Mental Health Services Data
363. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists by age and gender in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20157/18] - Cancer Screening Programmes
365. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to a company (details supplied) in each of the years since 2008 to analyse smear tests; the number of smear tests it analysed in each year; and... - Mental Health Services Provision
366. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter (details supplied) will be addressed regarding mental health in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20169/18] - Medical Card Appeals
367. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused medication on a medical card. [20204/18]
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