Results 221-240 of 11,875 for speaker:Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Department have requested this information from the agencies under aegis of the Department of Health and will respond to the Deputy in due course. The HSE have also been asked to respond directly to the Deputy
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Long-Term Illness (LTI) Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975, prescribing 16 conditions to be covered by the Scheme. Under the LTI Scheme, patients receive drugs, medicines, and medical and surgical appliances directly related to the treatment of their illness, free of charge. Further information,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Safeguarding adults who may be at risk of abuse is a key objective for me and my Department, every statutory body under its aegis, and for all health and social care services. A framework of standards, policies and procedures for safeguarding adults in the health and social care sector is already in place. This includes a National Safeguarding Office in the HSE, specialist Safeguarding and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Consent (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Irish Blood Transfusion service introduced the Individual Donor Risk Assessment (IDRA) in November 2022 in order to bring the national donor selection criteria into alignment with other countries within Europe. Fundamental to the scientific process is that the risk of transfusion transmitted infection should be as low as possible, and that in most cases there is a window period after...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: 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. The Minister for Health is prohibited from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to the particular query raised, as...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The health system has already successfully deployed electronic health record (EHR) systems in several Irish hospitals. These include the deployment of an enterprise EHR system at St. James Hospital Dublin (largest hospital in Ireland), the MN-CMS system in all of our large maternity hospitals, clinical management systems at the new National Forensics Hospital and the new National...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The National Children’s Hospital will operate as a fully digital hospital through the implementation of an enterprise-level Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. This system will enable delivery of more timely, coordinated, safe and efficient patient care; enable multidisciplinary teams through access to a shared view of the patient record; reduce medical errors through access to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The purpose of the Digital Health strategic framework Digital for Care: A Digital Health Framework for Ireland 2024–2030 - www.gov.ie/en/department-of-health/publications/digital-for- care-a-digital-health-framework-for-ireland-2024-2030/ - is to provide a clear vision for how we plan to leverage the opportunities offered by digital to reform the health service and provide better care...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Following from the publication of the 2018 Walker report, the 2019 HIQA maternity inspection of the unit found that - whilst ideally an obstetric operating theatre should be in, or adjacent to, the Labour Ward - the time taken to carry out an emergency Caesarean section, following the decision to deliver by Caesarean section, was monitored consistently in Portiuncula University Hospital (PUH)...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1788 and 1790 together. Ensuring that all maternity units are safely and appropriately staffed remains a key priority for the HSE and the Department of Health. The maternity unit in Portiuncula University Hospital (PUH) has 6 obstetricians and is fully staffed from a midwifery perspective. A central principle guiding Obstetrics and Gynaecology...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Walker report 2018 highlighted the “need to establish a maternity network...allowing the sharing of expertise within the network to strengthen the operational resilience of the smaller units such as PUH [Portiuncula University Hospital] and to enable such units to be supported so as to provide safe quality services.“ A clinical network for women's and children's services...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The Deputy was contacted to provid further informaton and subsequently requested to withdraw this question.