Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Hospital Groups

Billy Kelleher

778. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if implementation plans are in place for the emergency department review, the orthopaedic review, the haematology review and the histopathology review in the Saolta University Health Care Group. [54837/17]

Hospital Facilities

Billy Kelleher

779. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the progress made during 2017 on the replacement emergency department in Galway University Hospital. [54838/17]

Hospital Facilities

Billy Kelleher

780. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the progress made during 2017 on the replacement of end-of-life catheterisation laboratories in Galway University Hospital and managed service for an additional catheterisation laboratory in Galway University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital. [54839/17]

Hospital Facilities

Billy Kelleher

781. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the progress made during 2017 with regard to the blood and tissue establishment and integrated medical sciences laboratory in Galway University Hospital. [54840/17]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Billy Kelleher

782. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if capital funding has been secured for the development of a 50 bedded replacement block in Portiuncula University Hospital. [54841/17]

Hospital Facilities

Billy Kelleher

783. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the interventional suite in Sligo University Hospital has been replaced. [54842/17]

Hospital Services

Billy Kelleher

784. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if a diabetic centre has been provided to facilitate the commencement of a paediatric insulin pump service in Sligo University Hospital. [54843/17]

Hospital Facilities

Billy Kelleher

785. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in relation to the emergency department surgical block in Sligo University Hospital. [54844/17]

Hospital Services

Billy Kelleher

786. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the additional capacity that has been provided in Mayo University Hospital to address capacity deficits. [54845/17]

Hospital Services

Billy Kelleher

787. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in relation to the rehabilitation unit in Roscommon University Hospital. [54846/17]

Hospital Facilities

Billy Kelleher

788. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the upgrades that were made to infrastructure within the Saolta hospital group for meeting hygiene standards. [54847/17]

Hospital Services

Billy Kelleher

789. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the improvements that were made during 2017 to the early supported discharge stroke programme across the Saolta hospital group. [54848/17]

Hospital Staff Data

Billy Kelleher

790. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of additional theatre staff recruited during 2017 for each public and voluntary hospital for the purposes of increasing theatre capacity, in tabular form. [54849/17]

Hospital Staff Data

Billy Kelleher

791. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of new and additional staff that were recruited to support DEXA services within the Saolta hospital group. [54850/17]

Hospital Services

Billy Kelleher

792. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the progress that was made in the development of a respiratory support unit in Galway University Hospital during 2017. [54851/17]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Billy Kelleher

793. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if a second breast surgeon was appointed in Letterkenny University Hospital during 2017. [54852/17]

Hospital Staff Recruitment

Billy Kelleher

794. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if an oncologist was appointed in Letterkenny University Hospital during 2017. [54853/17]

Hospital Facilities

Billy Kelleher

795. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the way in which the capacity of an ambulatory haematology and oncology day care in the University Hospital Galway, UHG, centre was increased during 2017. [54854/17]

Hospital Staff Data

Billy Kelleher

796. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of additional registered advanced nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists that were recruited during 2017 by the Saolta hospital group to address the growing volume of new patients and increased treatment options available for persons presenting with and surviving cancer; and the number of registered advanced nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists in place for such purposes within the group. [54855/17]

Hospital Staff Data

Billy Kelleher

797. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses registered to prescribe medicinal products for each hospital group in 2016 and 2017 respectively, in tabular form. [54856/17]

Hospital Staff Data

Billy Kelleher

798. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses registered to prescribe ionising radiation for each hospital group in 2016 and 2017 respectively, in tabular form. [54857/17]

Hospital Procedures

Billy Kelleher

799. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the Schwartz rounds pilot in Galway University Hospital was completed in 2017; and when the Schwartz rounds will be introduced on all sites in the Saolta group. [54858/17]

Hospital Groups

Billy Kelleher

800. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the detail of the critical care network within the south and south west hospital group. [54859/17]

Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation

Billy Kelleher

812. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the action taken to implement recommendations 1 to 29 and 40 to 48 of the national rare disease plan, in tabular form. [54925/17]

Health Services Reform

Billy Kelleher

813. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the integrated care pathways that have been developed across the acute hospitals and community interface. [54926/17]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Billy Kelleher

814. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the solutions found by the HSE social care division to the current regulatory requirements in order to protect public bed capacity which is vital to support the acute hospital system. [54927/17]

Health Services Provision

Billy Kelleher

815. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the way in which the HSE social care division has developed appropriate public long-term capacity in order that complex patient needs can be met consistently. [54928/17]

Health Services Provision

Billy Kelleher

816. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the detail of the HSE social care division’s local clinical governance model to ensure clear links between discharging hospitals and existing community services. [54929/17]

Health Services Funding

Billy Kelleher

817. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if there is a ring-fenced funding stream in place for older patient groups, those with chronic illness and young persons with chronic neurological conditions, for example, acquired brain injury, multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease. [54930/17]

Health Strategies

Billy Kelleher

818. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the action taken for each of the 21 priority actions due to commence in the first year of the obesity policy and action plan 2016 to 2025, in tabular form. [54931/17]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme

Billy Kelleher

837. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to implement the 2015 review of the nursing homes support scheme recommendations on the administration of the scheme, in tabular form (details supplied). [55016/17]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme

Billy Kelleher

838. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to implement the 2015 review of the nursing homes support scheme recommendations on the price of long-term residential care, in tabular form (details supplied). [55017/17]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme

Billy Kelleher

839. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to implement the 2015 review of the nursing homes support scheme recommendations for future service provision, in tabular form (details supplied). [55018/17]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme

Billy Kelleher

840. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to implement the 2015 review of the nursing homes support scheme recommendations on residential care capacity, in tabular form (details supplied). [55019/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

841. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his views on the dropping of the four scoliosis surgery wait targets for 2018 contrary to the Ombudsman for Children's recommendations contained in the report, Waiting for Scoliosis Treatment - A Children's Rights Issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55028/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

842. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that there are no agreed surgical criteria for scoliosis surgery or agreed plan for 2018 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55029/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

843. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the HSE surgery target wait time for children who are clinically tested for scoliosis surgery as of 1 January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55030/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

844. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the reason the 20 scoliosis surgeries due to be completed in France did not go ahead (details supplied); the number of completed surgeries outsourced under the scoliosis plan; the number of parents who were formally asked if they would consent to their child's surgery being outsourced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55031/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

845. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the plan for 2018 in regard to children who are waiting on scoliosis surgery and procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55032/17]

Paediatric Services

Billy Kelleher

846. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when the two additional orthopaedic consultants for Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55033/17]

Paediatric Services

Billy Kelleher

847. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for the orthopaedic theatre in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, to open for additional days and to be at full capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55034/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

848. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when the amalgamation of waiting lists for paediatric scoliosis intervention across the children's hospital group to one central waiting list will take place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55035/17]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

849. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made to date especially on Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, waiting times for first appointment with a paediatric orthopaedic consultant (details supplied); the measures that have been taken to ensure that no child is at risk while waiting for his or her first consultation with an orthopaedic consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55036/17]

Health Services Charges

Billy Kelleher

901. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if measures are being considered to assist medical card patients who are charged by general practitioners for form-signing and bloods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55203/17]

Hospital Accommodation Provision

Billy Kelleher

1048. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the average number of acute hospital beds available in public hospitals for each of the years from 2015 to 2017, by public, private and non-designated hospitals, in tabular form. [1481/18]

Medical Aids and Appliances Provision

Billy Kelleher

1100. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a replacement hearing aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1960/18]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

1102. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health when an appointment for an operation will be issued to a person (details supplied). [1970/18]

Schools Healthy Living Strategies

Billy Kelleher

169. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of participating schools implementing a healthy schools action plan. [53797/17]

Hospital Beds Data

Billy Kelleher

340. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of additional critical care beds that have been provided at Cork university hospital in 2017. [53615/17]

Emergency Departments Waiting Times

Billy Kelleher

341. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if the HSE target of eliminating emergency department waiting times of greater than 24 hours for persons over 75 years of age will be met in 2017; and the number of persons over 75 years of age that have had a wait of more than 24 hours in an emergency department in 2017. [53616/17]

National Maternity Strategy Implementation

Billy Kelleher

342. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of national standards to improve access to antenatal anomaly screening in all maternity units as set out in the national maternity strategy. [53617/17]

Maternity Services Provision

Billy Kelleher

343. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of a range of improvement actions based on the national standards for bereavement care following pregnancy loss and perinatal death across all 19 maternity units. [53618/17]

Hospital Facilities

Billy Kelleher

344. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the status of the relocation of the Rotunda Hospital, the National Maternity Hospital and University of Limerick Maternity Hospital. [53619/17]

Hospitals Inspections

Billy Kelleher

345. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the status of the provision of monthly hospital safety statements; and the hospitals that provide them, in tabular form. [53620/17]

Primary Care Services Provision

Billy Kelleher

346. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out of the model of care of hereditary haemochromatosis and the model of care for therapeutic phlebotomy in association with primary care services. [53621/17]

Health Strategies

Billy Kelleher

349. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of hospital groups and CHOs that have completed Healthy Ireland implementation plans. [53796/17]

Health Promotion

Billy Kelleher

350. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if an implementation plan for the Healthy Ireland framework for brief intervention and health behaviour change has been developed; and if it has been commenced. [53798/17]

Diabetes Strategy

Billy Kelleher

351. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if each newly diagnosed person with diabetes is now being offered a place on the next available structured patient education course. [53799/17]

Health Strategies

Billy Kelleher

352. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if a self-management support framework for diabetes, asthma, COPD and cardiovascular disease has been developed; and when the implementation plan will commence. [53800/17]

Health Reports

Billy Kelleher

353. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if a needs assessment for cardiac rehabilitation has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53801/17]

Health Strategies

Billy Kelleher

354. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the development of the standardised chronic disease pathway. [53802/17]

Tobacco Control Measures

Billy Kelleher

355. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of tobacco sales to minors test purchase inspections carried out in 2017. [53803/17]

Tobacco Control Measures

Billy Kelleher

356. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the proportion of new and existing sites with a tobacco-free campus policy implemented in residential units for older persons in mental health approved centres, in mental health community residencies and in residential disability services. [53804/17]

Tobacco Control Measures

Billy Kelleher

357. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of front-line health care workers trained in 2017 to screen and support smokers to quit. [53806/17]

Hospital Food

Billy Kelleher

358. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the public and voluntary hospitals that have and do not have calorie posting in place, respectively, in tabular form. [53807/17]

Hospital Food

Billy Kelleher

359. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the public and voluntary hospitals that have implemented and not implemented, respectively, the healthier vending policy, in tabular form. [53808/17]

Hospital Food

Billy Kelleher

360. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the acute hospitals that have and have not, respectively, a HSE hospital food and nutrition policy developed and implemented, in tabular form. [53809/17]

Nursing Education

Billy Kelleher

361. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses that have received training on the nutrition reference pack for infants aged zero to 12 months. [53810/17]

Alcohol Treatment Programmes

Billy Kelleher

362. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of additional area alcohol action plans developed in 2017. [53811/17]

Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation

Billy Kelleher

363. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the details of the national implementation plan to promote positive ageing. [53812/17]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Billy Kelleher

364. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of eligible women aged 50 to 64 years of age screened under BreastCheck to date in 2017. [53813/17]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Billy Kelleher

365. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of eligible women aged 65 to 69 years of age screened under BreastCheck to date in 2017. [53814/17]

Health Services Data

Billy Kelleher

366. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of babies breastfed exclusively and not exclusively, respectively, at the first public health nurse visit and the three month public health nurse developmental check. respectively. [53815/17]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Billy Kelleher

367. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the percentage uptake of breast screening among the eligible population to date in 2017. [53816/17]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Billy Kelleher

368. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of women that have had one or more CervicalCheck smear tests in a primary care setting to date in 2017. [53819/17]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Billy Kelleher

369. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the percentage of eligible women with at least one satisfactory CervicalCheck screening in a five year period. [53820/17]

Health Services Staff

Billy Kelleher

370. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of self-management support co-ordinators appointed at CHO level. [53821/17]

Mental Health Services Data

Billy Kelleher

371. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of local and national partnership plans developed and agreed under the Understand Together dementia campaign. [53822/17]

Hospital Appointments Delays

Billy Kelleher

372. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the percentage of urgent cases in 2017 offered a colonoscopy appointment within two weeks of receipt of a letter in the clinic. [53823/17]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Billy Kelleher

373. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of persons checked under the BowelScreen programme in 2017. [53824/17]

Cancer Screening Programmes

Billy Kelleher

374. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the expected uptake rate for the BowelScreen programme in 2017. [53825/17]

Infectious Disease Incidence

Billy Kelleher

375. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of infectious disease outbreaks notified under the national infectious disease reporting schedule in 2017. [53826/17]

Infectious Disease Incidence

Billy Kelleher

376. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of individual outbreak-associated cases of infectious disease notified under the national infectious diseases reporting schedule in 2017. [53827/17]

Vaccination Programme Data

Billy Kelleher

377. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the national primary childhood immunisation uptake rates for conditions (details supplied) in 2017 for each CHO in tabular form. [53828/17]

Vaccination Programme Data

Billy Kelleher

378. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the influenza virus uptake rate amongst persons 65 years of age and over in 2017. [53829/17]

Vaccination Programme Data

Billy Kelleher

379. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the influenza virus uptake rate amongst healthcare workers in 2017 in acute hospitals. [53830/17]

Vaccination Programme Data

Billy Kelleher

380. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the influenza virus uptake rate amongst healthcare workers in 2017 in long-term care facilities in the community. [53831/17]

Food Safety Authority of Ireland Inspections

Billy Kelleher

381. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of official food control planned and planned surveillance inspections of food businesses in 2017. [53832/17]

Water Quality

Billy Kelleher

382. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of drinking water samples taken to assess fluoride parameter compliance in 2017. [53833/17]

HSE Complaints Procedures

Billy Kelleher

383. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the percentage to date in 2017 of environmental health complaints from the public risk-assessed within one working day. [53834/17]

Chronic Disease Management Programme

Billy Kelleher

384. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the evaluation of the 2016 asthma and COPD advice line service in collaboration with organisations (details supplied). [53835/17]

Hospitals Data

Billy Kelleher

385. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of ultrasounds provided to date in 2017 across care sites (details supplied). [53836/17]

Health Services Data

Billy Kelleher

386. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the care support packages for children discharged from hospital with complex medical conditions to date in 2017. [53837/17]

Speech and Language Therapy Data

Billy Kelleher

387. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of additional primary care speech and language assessment and therapy appointments provided to date in 2017. [53838/17]

Health Services Staff Data

Billy Kelleher

388. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of assistant psychology posts recruited in 2017 to deliver rapid access low-intensity psychological interventions for young persons. [53839/17]

Health Services Staff Data

Billy Kelleher

389. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of staff grade psychology posts recruited in 2017 for services for children in geographical areas in which there are inadequate numbers of posts in place. [53840/17]

Health Services Provision

Billy Kelleher

390. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health if a computerised cognitive behavioural therapy programme for young persons has been provided. [53841/17]

Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists

Billy Kelleher

391. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of children waiting more than three years for orthodontic services. [53842/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

392. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff who have received training in 2017 on SAOR screening and brief intervention for problem alcohol and substance use. [53843/17]

Substance Misuse

Billy Kelleher

393. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health the number of new patients that have received access to naxolone in 2017. [53844/17]