simon harris Archives - Louise O'Reilly TD

On the 22nd November in the Health Committee I questioned the Minister for Health on the Primetime Investigates programme of the previous evening on RTE. This showed serious failures in HSE oversight and some consultants disgracefully abusing the system and breaking their contracts by not working their publically contracted hours.

Kildare Street Questions

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card reviews that have been carried out to date in 2019; the number that have been refused to date; and the number that have been successful to date [41673/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 334. To ask the Minister for Health his plans or the plans of the HSE to restore allowances to a society (details supplied) that were cut during the austerity years; and his further plans to add coeliac disease to the long-term illness scheme [41674/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for a first outpatient appointment across all specialties by hospital and length of time waiting in tabular form. [41675/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 338. To ask the Minister for Health when the recommendations made by the Ombudsman for Children will be implemented in respect off the establishment of child specific wait lists and target outpatient waits for children. [41678/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 336. To ask the Minister for Health the one-to-five-year alternative care pathway for children with comorbidities who require and cannot access timely scoliosis care in an acute hospital setting here in view of the ongoing crisis in recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals. [41676/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 337. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow for the outsourcing of scoliosis surgeries via the NTPF in view of the ongoing crisis in recruitment and retention of healthcare professionals and the excessive wait times for scoliosis surgery experienced by children. [41677/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (15 Oct 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spinal monitoring surgeries that have been cancelled and rescheduled in Children’s Health Ireland hospitals during 2018 and to date in 2019 due to a lack of access to a spinal monitoring team; and his views on the current spinal monitoring arrangement in Children’s […]

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