Bernard Allen
Ceist:409 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of mental health rehabilitation beds. [1193/00]
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409 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of mental health rehabilitation beds. [1193/00]
410 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of physical handicap rehabilitation beds. [1194/00]
411 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of cardiac rehabilitation beds. [1195/00]
412 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of stroke victim rehabilitation beds. [1196/00]
413 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of accident victim rehabilitation beds. [1197/00]
414 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of extended care beds in each health board area for mental health rehabilitation. [1198/00]
415 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of extended care beds in each health board area for physical handicap rehabilitation. [1199/00]
416 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of extended care beds in each health board area for cardiac rehabilitation. [1200/00]
417 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of extended care beds in each health board area for stroke victim rehabilitation. [1201/00]
418 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the plans, if any, he has to increase the number of extended care beds in each health board area for accident victim rehabilitation. [1202/00]
419 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of mental health rehabilitation beds in each health board area; and the hospitals in which these are located. [1203/00]
420 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of physical handicap rehabilitation beds in each health board area; and the hospitals in which these are located. [1204/00]
421 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of cardiac rehabilitation beds in each health board area; and the hospitals in which these are located. [1205/00]
422 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of accident victim rehabilitation beds in each health board area; and the hospitals in which these are located. [1206/00]
423 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of stroke victim rehabilitation beds in each health board area; and the hospitals in which these are located. [1207/00]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 409 to 423, inclusive, together.
Effective rehabilitation draws on a broad range of services to meet the particular needs of patients, with the objective of helping patients return to normal life in the community. In the light of this, a large element of rehabilitation services is provided on a day or community care basis. The relevant services range from specialist in-patient medical rehabilitation through such services as physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy. These services are often initiated in the context of in-patient treatment for another underlying illness or condition and subsequently continued on a day care basis or in the community, consistent with patients needs. It is, therefore, more appropriate to focus on ensuring that rehabilitation is provided to patients in the most appropriate setting rather than on the basis of identifying dedicated services for particular categories of patients other than those requiring specialist in-patient medical rehabilitation. A number of important aspects of the role of rehabilitation services are highlighted below and I also have asked the chief executive officer of each health board to write to the Deputy outlining the particular arrangements for the provision of rehabilitation services in each health board area.
In-patient medical rehabilitation services are required by certain types of patients, such as those seriously injured in accidents and stroke patients and a 123 bed facility for such patients is provided at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, which provides a national medical rehabilitation service. The total cost of this service in 2000 is £9.069 million.