Written Answers Nos. 611-634
616. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the PHECC Governance Validation Framework specifically reviews the relationship between ambulance allocation delays and adverse patient outcomes. [41140/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
621. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether repeated breaches of PURPLE and RED allocation targets are reported to the HSE Board, National Risk Committee, or Department of Health through any formal governance reporting structure. [41145/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
622. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether ambulance allocation delays are incorporated into any enterprise risk scoring methodology within the HSE or National Ambulance Service. [41146/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
623. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any review has been undertaken into the appropriateness of the current ambulance allocation KPI targets of 60% for PURPLE calls and 75% for RED calls. [41147/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
626. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether repeated breaches of ambulance allocation KPIs at local, regional, or national level trigger any formal escalation mechanism to senior HSE management, the HSE Board, or the Department of Health. [41177/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
627. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any adverse clinical outcome review, morbidity review, mortality review, or patient harm assessment process examines whether delayed ambulance allocation formed a contributory factor in patient outcomes. [41178/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
628. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the National Ambulance Service maintains any internal threshold defining what constitutes an extreme or critical ambulance allocation delay for governance or patient-safety purposes. [41179/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
631. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE has conducted any analysis correlating ambulance allocation delays with staffing shortages, ambulance availability, emergency department overcrowding, or hospital offload delays. [41182/26]
View answerAs this is a service matter, it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.
