John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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378. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care as of 1 October 2022 or the latest date available; the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and the number waiting more than 52 weeks. [50861/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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379. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a ophthalmology appointment in primary care as of 1 October 2022 or the latest date available; the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and the number waiting more than 52 weeks. [50862/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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380. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a audiology appointment in primary care as of 1 October 2022 or the latest date available; and the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and the number waiting more than 52 weeks. [50863/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care as of 1 October 2022 or the latest date available; and the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and the number waiting more than 52 weeks. [50864/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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382. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care as of 1 October 2022 or the latest date available; and the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and the number waiting more than 52 weeks. [50865/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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383. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a counselling appointment in primary care as of 1 October 2022 or the latest date available; and the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and the number waiting more than 52 weeks. [50866/22]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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384. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each Local Health Office area waiting for a child and adolescent mental health services appointment as of 1 October 2022 or the latest date available; and the number waiting 0 to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and the number waiting more than 52 weeks. [50867/22]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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385. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children admitted to adult mental health units to date in 2022. [50868/22]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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386. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours currently being provided in each LHO area as of 1 October 2022 or the latest date available; the way that compares to target in each LHO for the same time period; the number of persons currently on the waiting list for home support hours in each LHO area; the number waiting 0-3, 3-6, 6-12 and the number waiting 12 months plus in tabular form. [50869/22]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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387. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme as of 1 October 2022 or latest date available; the average waiting time; the number of persons currently awaiting placement under the scheme for each local health area; and the length of time waiting in tabular form. [50870/22]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is an operational matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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388. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients that have been removed from outpatient lists in 2022 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant for each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [50871/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Periodic validation forms an essential part of best practice in relation to the management of hospital waiting lists.

Validation is a process whereby hospital administration contacts patients on waiting lists at pre-planned intervals to ensure that patients are ready, willing, suitable and available to attend a hospital appointment or if they wish to be removed.

For a number of years validation was conducted at individual hospital level in Ireland but in 2018, the Minister for Health approved the establishment of the National Centralised Validation Unit (NCVU) within the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). The establishment of a centralised function has facilitated the introduction of a standardised approach to validation of waiting lists across all hospitals and across Inpatient Day Case and Outpatient waiting lists.

In relation to the data requested by the Deputy, the NCVU provided the attached document which outlines outpatient validation removal figures by hospital from 1st January to 7 October 2022.

The NCVU has advised that patients who fail to respond to Outpatient Commissioning Offer letters are now formally validated by the validation team and removals relating to this cohort of patients are included in the attached report.

OPD Validation

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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389. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 October 2022; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis on that date. [50872/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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390. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed discharges at the end of September 2022 for each public and voluntary hospital; and the total number to date in 2022, in tabular form. [50873/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is an operational matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly with the requested information.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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391. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed days owing to delayed discharges to date in 2022, for each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [50874/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is an operational matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly with the requested information.