125 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Health and Children further to her Department’s response to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 13 February 2007, the circumstances in which a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 might be able themselves to refuse or accept an offer of a long-term care home place; the way the person communicated their refusal to be transferred to a nursing home in Kildare from a hospital in Dublin; the name of the nursing home which, according to the response, the person refused to consent to be moved to; if she will provide evidence of the refusal by the person to be transferred to the nursing home in Kildare referred to in the response including evidence from a medical doctor that the person has the mental capacity to exercise choice in matters relating to their care; the guidelines which operate when neither a patient nor their next of kin will consent to a particular transfer from a hospital to a long-term nursing home outside the county of their residence; the number of refusals her Department recommend should be accepted of a patient or, where appropriate, their next of kin before it would approve of the compelled transfer to a nursing home outside the county of a patient’s residence without either that patient’s consent or, where appropriate, their next of kin’s. [8080/07]

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125 Dr. Upton asked the Minister for Health and Children further to her Department’s response to Parliamentary Question No. 363 of 13 February 2007, the circumstances in which a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 might be able themselves to refuse or accept an offer of a long-term care home place; the way the person communicated their refusal to be transferred to a nursing home in Kildare from a hospital in Dublin; the name of the nursing home which, according to the response, the person refused to consent to be moved to; if she will provide evidence of the refusal by the person to be transferred to the nursing home in Kildare referred to in the response including evidence from a medical doctor that the person has the mental capacity to exercise choice in matters relating to their care; the guidelines which operate when neither a patient nor their next of kin will consent to a particular transfer from a hospital to a long-term nursing home outside the county of their residence; the number of refusals her Department recommend should be accepted of a patient or, where appropriate, their next of kin before it would approve of the compelled transfer to a nursing home outside the county of a patient’s residence without either that patient’s consent or, where appropriate, their next of kin’s. [8080/07]

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