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Ambulance Service Provision

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 14 November 2012

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Questions (241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247)

Jim Daly

Question:

241. Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Health the total cost of the ambulance service in West Cork for each of the past five years. [50260/12]

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Jim Daly

Question:

242. Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Health the estimated increase in the cost of providing improved ambulance service in west Cork under the new proposed system to be rolled out next year. [50261/12]

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Jim Daly

Question:

243. Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that were admitted to hospital for each of the following time scales, for each of the past 24 months: one night, two nights or five nights plus after being transported there by emergency ambulance from West Cork [50262/12]

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Jim Daly

Question:

244. Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that were discharged from care of the Health Service Executive after being transported to hospital by emergency ambulance from west Cork less than 24 hours after arriving to the hospital. [50263/12]

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Jim Daly

Question:

245. Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Health the average time paramedics will spend at Cork University Hospital after arriving with a patient to admit to the hospital before they are free to depart back to west Cork to provide ambulance cover in that area. [50264/12]

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Jim Daly

Question:

246. Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of routine non emergency patient transport requests that have been carried out by emergency ambulance for each of the past 24 months by emergency ambulances; the average time each of these services will last and the number of staff that will be with the patient on such a transfer including hospital staff and paramedics [50265/12]

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Jim Daly

Question:

247. Deputy Jim Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of nights between 8p.m. and 8a.m. in tabular form for each of the past 24 months that the Health Service Executive received 999 emergency ambulance calls by quantity from one to fifteen for example one night two calls, six nights four calls and so on for each month [50266/12]

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Written answers

I propose to take Questions Nos. 241 to 247, inclusive, together.

As these are service matters, they have been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.

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