Results 281-300 of 47,286 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: Hospital Appointments Status (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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. In relation to the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: GPs are private practitioners, most of whom hold a GMS contract with the HSE for the provision of GP services without charge to medical card and GP visit card holders. Where a person who holds a medical card or GP visit card, experiences difficulty in finding a GP to accept them as a patient, that person having unsuccessfully applied to at least three GPs in the area (or fewer if there are...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Eligibility for a medical card is primarily based on a financial assessment which is conducted by the HSE in accordance with the Health Act 1970. The HSE assesses each medical card application on a qualifying financial threshold. This is the amount of money that an individual can earn a week and still qualify for a card. It is specific to the individual’s own financial circumstances....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Act 2020 provides a legal basis for the extension of GP visit card eligibility for those up to the age of 12 years inclusive in three phases; 6 and 7; 8 and 9, and 10 to 12 years of age. The GP Agreement 2023 extended GP visit card eligibility from all children under 6 years to all children under 8 years of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) procures capacity across a range of high-volume procedures in order to positively impact waiting times for patients. Such procedures may be procured in both private hospitals (outsourcing), or public hospitals (insourcing). The table below shows details of treatments arranged through the NTPF for Outpatients, Inpatient & Daycase (IPDC), and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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: Hospital Charges (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The Health (Amendment) Act 2023, signed into law by the President on 4 April 2023, removes the acute public in-patient charge of €80 per day for people accessing care as a public patient in public hospitals. This measure came into effect from 17 April 2023. The Health (Out-Patient Charges) Regulations 2019 provides that, subject to certain exemptions, a charge shall be made for...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: The government and I as Minister for Health are fully committed to supporting improvements and advances in stroke services and have allocated a total of €7.3m to fund the HSE National Stroke Strategy over the last two Budgets. The Strategy aims to modernise and reform stroke services in line with Sláintecare policy and address the challenges facing Ireland from population ageing...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the management of the public healthcare property estate, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to you in relation to this matter.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: 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 Service Executive (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Health Regions, each led by a Regional Executive Officer (REO), are new HSE structures which now have responsibility for the planning and coordinated delivery of health and social care services for their respective populations. Each Health Region will have an Executive Management Team (EMT) led by the REO. The EMTs are critical structures for each Region. They will provide the governance and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Health Regions, each led by a Regional Executive Officer (REO), are new HSE structures which now have responsibility for the planning and coordinated delivery of health and social care services for their respective populations. Each Health Region will have an Executive Management Team (EMT) led by the REO. The EMTs are critical structures for each Region. They will provide the governance and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Health Regions, each led by a Regional Executive Officer (REO), are new HSE structures which now have responsibility for the planning and coordinated delivery of health and social care services for their respective populations. Each Health Region will have an Executive Management Team (EMT) led by the REO. The EMTs are critical structures for each Region. They will provide the governance and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the incredibly important role of Radiation Therapists in the provision of cancer services in this country. I am glad that the independent review of the Radiation Therapist profession has been finalised. This strategic review considered important issues such as organisation structure, career development in line with Health and Social Care Professional...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the important work carried out by all Clinical Placement Coordinators. Their work is of significant value to our services. Recent increases applied to the Clinical Nurse/ Midwife Manager 2 (CNM/CMM) scale were a result of the implementation of recommendation 45 of the Expert Review Body (ERB) on Nursing and Midwifery and Labour Court recommendation...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Sep 2024)
Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.