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Thursday, 5 Mar 2020

Written Answers Nos. 776-795

Nursing Staff Data

Questions (776)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

776. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff nurses employed at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available; and the equivalent figure for the same date a year earlier. [3515/20]

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Written answers

The information being sought by the Deputy is publicly available on the HSE's own website. Nursing figures for January 2019 and 2020 can be found on page 2 of the attached link.

www.hse.ie/eng/staff/resources/our-workforce/workforce-reporting/health-service-employment-report-jan-2020.pdf

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

Questions (777)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

777. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a diagnostic scan at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3516/20]

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Written answers

The HSE advises that a pilot project commenced in 2016 by the HSE Acute Hospitals Division to progress the collection of national radiology waiting list data. The project has been supported by the Radiology Clinical Care Programme and has involved key stakeholders across the system including the National Integrated Medical Imaging System (NIMIS) Team, Hospital Groups, and the support of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) for data collection and data management expertise

The NTPF has advised my Department that it does not currently record the personal data of any of the patients on the Diagnostics waiting list as the purpose of this aggregate data is to provide a National Level overview of the number of patients waiting for modalities of CT, MR and US. This report is not intended to be used for the active management of hospital diagnostics waiting lists - local reports and mechanisms should continue to be used for the management of diagnostics waiting lists at hospital level. 

For this reason, the NTPF is unable to identify whether patients on the Diagnostics waiting list are over or under 18 years of age.

Mental Health Services Waiting Lists

Questions (778)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

778. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3517/20]

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Written answers

As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Audiology Services Waiting Lists

Questions (779)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

779. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3518/20]

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Written answers

As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Ophthalmology Services Waiting Lists

Questions (780)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

780. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3519/20]

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Written answers

As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Dietetic Services Waiting Lists

Questions (781)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

781. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a dietetic appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3520/20]

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Written answers

As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Podiatry Services Waiting Lists

Questions (782)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

782. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3521/20]

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Written answers

As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply to the Deputy.

Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists

Questions (783)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

783. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for speech and language therapy at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3522/20]

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Written answers

As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists

Questions (784)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

784. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for initial speech and language therapy at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3523/20]

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Written answers

As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists

Questions (785)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

785. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for further speech and language therapy at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than 4 months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3524/20]

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As this question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply.

Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists

Questions (786)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

786. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a first assessment for occupational therapy at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by LHO; and the number waiting less than four months, four to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3525/20]

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As the Deputy's question relates to a service issue it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.

Hospital Waiting Lists Data

Questions (787, 788, 789, 790, 791, 792, 793, 794, 795)

Stephen Donnelly

Question:

787. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case active waiting list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3526/20]

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Stephen Donnelly

Question:

788. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case GI endoscopy waiting list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3527/20]

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Stephen Donnelly

Question:

789. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case to come in waiting list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3528/20]

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Stephen Donnelly

Question:

790. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the GI endoscopy to come in waiting list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3529/20]

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Stephen Donnelly

Question:

791. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the inpatient day case suspensions list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3530/20]

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Stephen Donnelly

Question:

792. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the planned procedures list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3531/20]

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Stephen Donnelly

Question:

793. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the GI endoscopy planned procedures list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3532/20]

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Stephen Donnelly

Question:

794. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the planned procedures suspensions list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3533/20]

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Stephen Donnelly

Question:

795. Deputy Stephen Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting on the outpatient waiting list at the end of February 2020 or the latest date available by hospital group; and the number waiting less than six months, six to 12 months and more than 12 months, in tabular form. [3534/20]

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Written answers

I propose to take Questions Nos. 787 to 795, inclusive, together.

The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) currently collects and collates information in respect of the Inpatient, Day Case, Planned Procedure and Outpatient Waiting Lists.

Patients waiting for an appointment date for their treatment are categorised as 'Active' and patients suspended because they are temporarily unfit or unable to attend due to clinical or personal/social reasons are categorised as 'Suspension'. The Suspension category is also used where patients are being processed through various NTPF funded Insourcing or Outsourcing Initiatives.

The Planned Procedure list comprises those patients who have had treatment and require additional treatment at a future date (e.g., a patient who has had a scope may require surveillance monitoring scopes in the future). Patients on the Planned Procedure list are assigned indicative dates for treatment. These indicative dates are determined by the clinician and treatment before these dates would not be appropriate.

The Outpatient Waiting List includes patients with a scheduled appointment date for their consultation, and those awaiting an appointment date.

In relation to the specific query raised by the Deputy, the NTPF has provided the information requested in the tables attached. The NTPF has further advised that within the Public Health System, children are generally classified as those under the age of 16, while the figures in the attached tables also include patients between 16 and 18 years of age, to reflect patients who were under 18 on the 30th January 2020 according to the Date of Birth received from the relevant hospital. 

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