| Ref No | Member | Question | Tabled | Status | Index Terms |
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AQW 11692/17-22
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Mr Gerry Carroll
(PBPA - West Belfast)
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To ask the Minister of Health how many people are on the waiting list to get access to a paediatrician.
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| 08/12/2020 |
Answered on 16/12/2020
| Paediatrics; Waiting times; Patients |
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AQW 11572/17-22
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Ms Claire Sugden
(IND - East Londonderry)
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To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) the reason for medical and dental students from Northern Ireland receiving reduced financial support in the form of grants, loans and bursaries in the final two years of a five or six year course; (ii) how these students are expected to cover living costs, especially with increased studying hours during these years of study; and (iii) whether she accepts that, while the NHS pays these students’ fees during these final years, this does not help them survive financially in the short term.
| 04/12/2020 |
To be answered by 21/12/2020
| Medicine; Dentistry; Students; Finance |
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AQW 11166/17-22
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Mr Andrew Muir
(APNI - North Down)
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To ask the Minister of Health what steps his Department is taking to ensure there is adequate provision of Health Service Dental Services readily available to the public.
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| 27/11/2020 |
Answered on 11/12/2020
| Dental services; Patients; Administration |
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AQW 10975/17-22
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Ms Claire Sugden
(IND - East Londonderry)
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To ask the Minister of Health what plans he has to (i) provide funding to dentists to pay for personal protective equipment and new ventilation equipment that would enable a reduction in fallow times; (ii) create a more nuanced plan for local dentists rather then relying on the UK-wide recommendations; (iii) reduce the fallow time between appointments; and (iv) commission an audit of practices’ ventilation capacity to establish a baseline and to see where capital investment may be required for surgeries that will require additional ventilation measures.
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| 25/11/2020 |
Answered on 08/12/2020
| Dentistry; Expenditure; Protective clothing; Ventilation |
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AQW 10974/17-22
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Ms Claire Sugden
(IND - East Londonderry)
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To ask the Minister of Health (i) for an update on the GDS dentistry contract; (ii) what plans he has to address the 30 per cent real terms loss of earnings by dentists; and (iii) what conversations has he had or plans to have with the Minister for the Economy to secure a financial package to support dentists.
| 25/11/2020 |
To be answered by 10/12/2020
| Dental services; Contracts; Income; Finance; Covid 19 |
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AQW 10973/17-22
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Ms Claire Sugden
(IND - East Londonderry)
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To ask the Minister of Health what plans he has for developing a new oral health strategy.
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| 25/11/2020 |
Answered on 08/12/2020
| Dental services; Health |
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AQW 10814/17-22
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Ms Órlaithí Flynn
(SF - West Belfast)
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To ask the Minister of Health, apart from the General Dental Services Financial Support Scheme to assist dentists during the COVID-19 pandemic, whether he has provided any additional capital, or made a bid for additional capital, to further support dentists.
| 24/11/2020 |
To be answered by 09/12/2020
| Dental services; Covid 19; Finance |
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AQW 9521/17-22
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Mr Christopher Stalford
(DUP - South Belfast)
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To ask the Minister of Health to detail the procedures, other than cancer and heart procedures, that have been postponed since the beginning of the pandemic.
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| 02/11/2020 |
Answered on 08/12/2020
| Health and social care trusts; Waiting times; Cancer; Heart diseases; Covid 19 |
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AQW 9445/17-22
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Mr Gordon Dunne
(DUP - North Down)
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To ask the Minister of Health when dental practices will be able to operate at full capacity.
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| 02/11/2020 |
Answered on 13/11/2020
| Dental services; Covid 19; Regulation; Protective clothing; Patients |
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AQW 8942/17-22
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Mr Harry Harvey
(DUP - Strangford)
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To ask the Minister of Health what plans his Department has to provide COVID-19-related financial support to dentistry.
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| 16/10/2020 |
Answered on 10/11/2020
| Dental services; Government departments; Finance; Covid 19 |
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AQW 8941/17-22
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Mr Harry Harvey
(DUP - Strangford)
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To ask the Minister of Health what support has been provided to dental businesses, engaged in NHS dental treatment, to meet additional costs incurred as a result of COVID-19 regulations.
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| 16/10/2020 |
Answered on 10/11/2020
| Dental services; Government departments; Finance; Covid 19 |
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AQW 8862/17-22
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Mr Harry Harvey
(DUP - Strangford)
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To ask the Minister of Health how many outpatient appointments, virtual or otherwise, were carried out over the course of the last 12 months, broken down by (i) Health and Social Care Trust; and (ii) department.
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| 15/10/2020 |
Answered on 30/10/2020
| Health and social care trusts; Out-patients |
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AQW 8861/17-22
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Mr Harry Harvey
(DUP - Strangford)
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To ask the Minister of Health to detail the level of capacity at which the Royal Victoria Hospital School of Dentistry is operating, broken down by each month since January 2020.
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| 15/10/2020 |
Answered on 30/10/2020
| Belfast Health and Social Care Trust; Dental services |
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AQW 8676/17-22
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Mr Colin McGrath
(SDLP - South Down)
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To ask the Minister of Health when community dentists, who are working weekends in the COVID-19 emergency dental hubs, will receive payment for this work.
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| 13/10/2020 |
Answered on 26/10/2020
| Dentistry; Covid 19; Pay |
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AQW 8347/17-22
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Ms Paula Bradshaw
(APNI - South Belfast)
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To ask the Minister of Health when he will sign off on overtime rates to be paid to Community Dentists who were redeployed to work in urgent dental care centres since the start of the pandemic.
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| 07/10/2020 |
Answered on 20/10/2020
| Dentistry; Overtime; Contracts; Working conditions |
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AQW 8283/17-22
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Mr Andrew Muir
(APNI - North Down)
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To ask the Minister of Health what provisions are being made to enable the full return of routine Health Service dental care.
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| 06/10/2020 |
Answered on 06/11/2020
| Dental services; Patients |
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AQW 8233/17-22
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Ms Paula Bradshaw
(APNI - South Belfast)
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To ask the Minister of Health for an update on bringing uplifts in dental pay into line with the rest of the UK.
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| 06/10/2020 |
Answered on 20/10/2020
| Dentistry; Pay; Pay settlements; United Kingdom; Government departments |
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AQW 8055/17-22
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Mr Alex Easton
(DUP - North Down)
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To ask the Minister of Health why some Health Service dentists are not carrying out routine fillings.
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| 02/10/2020 |
Answered on 12/10/2020
| Dental services; Medical treatments; Covid 19; Safety; Disease control |
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AQW 7646/17-22
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Mr Colm Gildernew
(SF - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)
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To ask the Minister of Health whether he has plans to bring forward a revised Test, Trace and Protect plan to enhance the testing and tracing capacity and provide enhanced support for people self isolating, including monitoring arrangements.
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| 25/09/2020 |
Answered on 26/10/2020
| Covid 19; Testing; Disease control |
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AQW 7594/17-22
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Mr Stewart Dickson
(APNI - East Antrim)
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To ask the Minister of Health to detail the average waiting time for surgery, broken down by type of procedure.
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| 25/09/2020 |
Answered on 12/10/2020
| Surgery; Waiting times; Health and social care trusts |
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