Bernard Allen
Question:603 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the steps she has taken to help create public awareness on the preventable and treatable disease of osteoporosis. [28337/06]
View answerWednesday, 27 September 2006
Questions (553, 554)
Written answers
The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to respond directly to the Deputy in relation to the matter raised.
Question No. 604 answered with QuestionNo. 154.
Liz McManus
Question:605 Ms McManus asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason public patients have to wait between 18 months and two and a half years to receive an appointment to be assessed by a consultant at Croom Orthopaedic Hospital, County Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28349/06]
View answerMy Department has been advised by the Health Service Executive that 150 orthopaedic patients on the waiting lists at Croom Orthopaedic Hospital have been identified for referral to the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).
To date 78 patients have been contacted, of whom 25 have been referred to Barringtons Hospital and 5 to the Bons Secours, Cork. Ten further cases have been resolved and the patients have been taken off the waiting list. The HSE is awaiting replies from the remaining 38 patients.