1217. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE maintains data on waiting times for infectious disease consultations relating to suspected lyme disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39061/26]
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1218. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a review has been undertaken regarding access to intravenous antibiotic treatment for severe lyme disease cases within the public health system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39062/26]
1219. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department funds or supports any Irish research projects relating to lyme disease, tick-borne illnesses, or long-term post-infectious complications; the funding allocated annually since 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39063/26]
1220. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if lyme disease is included within national communicable disease surveillance and reporting frameworks operated by the HSE and Health Protection Surveillance Centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39064/26]
1221. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of hospital admissions annually associated with lyme disease, neurological lyme disease, lyme carditis or lyme arthritis from 2020 to 2026, in tabular form. [39065/26]
1222. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has assessed the economic and workforce impact associated with long-term lyme disease illness, including inability to work and disability-related impacts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39066/26]
1223. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has assessed the clinical impact of reimbursement delays for patients with progressive neurological conditions where irreversible deterioration may occur during the assessment process. [39068/26]
1224. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE maintains any target timeframe for completion of reimbursement assessments relating to treatments for progressive neurodegenerative diseases. [39069/26]
1225. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department or HSE has considered establishing an accelerated reimbursement pathway for medicines relating to rare progressive neurological disorders. [39070/26]
1226. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the average duration of the pricing and reimbursement process for orphan medicines since 2020, from initial application to final decision. [39071/26]
1227. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if a review has been undertaken into the patient impact of delays in reimbursement decisions for orphan or rare disease medicines. [39072/26]
1228. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE records cases in which a patient’s clinical condition significantly deteriorated while a reimbursement application remained under assessment. [39073/26]
1229. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has conducted an international benchmarking on timelines for reimbursement decisions relating to orphan medicines and rare neurological conditions. [39074/26]
1230. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if there is a mechanism permitting interim or conditional reimbursement for medicines treating progressive neurological diseases pending completion of the full reimbursement process. [39075/26]
1231. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide, for each of the past five years, the total expenditure by the HSE and Section 38 voluntary hospitals on temporary agency and locum staffing, broken down by supplier name, staff category, Health Region, hospital, community healthcare organisation, and service site. [39097/26]
1232. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide, for each HSE hospital, approved mental health centre, CAMHS service, and community healthcare service, the total whole-time equivalent staffing complement, the number represented by agency or locum staff, and the percentage agency dependency, broken down by staff category, Health Region, and year. [39098/26]
1233. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a centralised national system for recording complaints, safeguarding concerns, removals from placement, “do not return” notifications, credentialing concerns, disciplinary concerns, or repeated performance issues relating to agency or locum healthcare workers across HSE-funded services. [39099/26]
1234. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether an agency or locum healthcare worker removed from one HSE-funded site due to performance, conduct, safeguarding, or patient safety concerns can subsequently be redeployed elsewhere within the HSE system without a central restriction mechanism. [39100/26]
1235. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health how staffing agencies supplying workers to HSE-funded services are performance monitored nationally, including whether complaints, patient safety incidents, missed shifts, cancelled placements, credentialing failures, Garda vetting issues, contract breaches, or supplier sanctions are centrally tracked and performance scored. [39101/26]
1236. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE maintains a national supplier performance framework for healthcare staffing agencies and whether any suppliers have, within the past five years, been suspended, sanctioned, financially penalised, removed from frameworks, or subject to corrective action requirements. [39102/26]
1237. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide, for each of the past five years, the total expenditure on agency and locum staffing within public mental health services, broken down by approved mental health centre, CAMHS, community mental health team, staff category, and Health Region. [39103/26]
1238. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether continuity of clinician care within public mental health services is measured as a service quality or patient safety indicator and, if not, whether the absence of such measurement has been identified as a governance or clinical risk. [39104/26]
1239. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of unfilled permanent consultant psychiatry posts currently vacant within the public health system, broken down by specialty, service type, and Health Region. [39105/26]
1240. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the Department or HSE has carried out any assessment of the relationship between consultant psychiatry vacancies, agency dependency, clinician turnover, and continuity of patient care within public mental health services. [39106/26]
1241. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Health the progress on the public-only consultant contract; the number of consultants now signed to the system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39125/26]