Written answers
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Department of Health
Health Service Staff
9:00 pm
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 543: To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care teams in existence currently being developed and in planning stages on a county basis. [25912/11]
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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The HSE has identified a need for 518 Primary Care Teams and 386 of them have commenced operation with widely varying degrees of activity. The remaining 132 Teams are at varying stages of development.
The table shows the number of Primary Care Teams in place and the number of Teams in development, at the end of August 2011, broken down on a HSE Regional and Local Health Office Area basis.
| Overall No of Teams | LHO Name | No. of PCTs in Place (31st Aug 2011) | No. of PCTs in Development (31st Aug 2011) |
| Dublin Mid Leinster | |||
| 15 | Dublin South City | 11 | 4 |
| 10 | Dublin South East | 8 | 2 |
| 18 | Dublin South West | 9 | 9 |
| 15 | Dublin West | 8 | 7 |
| 25 | Kildare/West Wicklow | 19 | 6 |
| 20 | Laois/Offaly | 9 | 11 |
| 16 | Longford/Westmeath | 13 | 3 |
| 16 | South Dublin | 14 | 2 |
| 14 | Wicklow | 14 | 0 |
| 149 | 105 | 44 | |
| Dublin North East | |||
| 14 | Cavan/Monaghan | 10 | 4 |
| 27 | Dublin North | 27 | 0 |
| 21 | Dublin North Central | 21 | 0 |
| 24 | Dublin North West | 13 | 11 |
| 12 | Louth | 9 | 3 |
| 19 | Meath | 5 | 14 |
| 117 | 85 | 32 | |
| South | |||
| 16 | Carlow/Kilkenny | 11 | 5 |
| 16 | Kerry | 9 | 7 |
| 12 | North Cork | 8 | 4 |
| 21 | North Lee | 20 | 1 |
| 22 | South Lee | 17 | 5 |
| 10 | Tipperary South | 7 | 3 |
| 12 | Waterford | 9 | 3 |
| 8 | West Cork | 8 | 0 |
| 17 | Wexford | 12 | 5 |
| 134 | 101 | 33 | |
| West | |||
| 12 | Clare | 12 | 0 |
| 18 | Donegal | 12 | 6 |
| 26 | Galway | 19 | 7 |
| 18 | Limerick | 14 | 4 |
| 15 | Mayo | 15 | 0 |
| 6 | Roscommon | 6 | 0 |
| 11 | Sligo/Leitrim | 8 | 3 |
| 12 | Tipp/East Limerick | 9 | 3 |
| 118 | 95 | 23 | |
| Totals | |||
| 518 | 386 | 132 |
Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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Question 544: To ask the Minister for Health further to previous questions regarding the position of the chief dental officer replied to on 26 May 2011, the position regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25924/11]
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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In a response to a similar Question on 26th May, I informed the Deputy that the current moratorium on the filling of posts has meant that my Department has not been in a position to fill the position of Chief Dental Officer. The Dental Advisor formerly on secondment to my Department has completed her secondment and returned to the HSE. Following the review of my Department under the Organisational Review Programme (ORP) we will be reviewing the skills needed for the future and this will include positions such as that of Chief Dental Officer.
This Review of Skills is in the next phase of our implementation of the Action Plan prepared in response to the ORP review and work on this phase will commence shortly.
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