213 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the possible outsourcing of pathology and blood tests from St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin; the rationale for outsourcing such tests to the private sector when the necessary skill set and experience exists in Health Service Executive facilities; if options have been explored for centralising such procedures at existing one or more HSE run laboratories; if a preferred bidder for this contract has been chosen; if a similar outsourcing process is in progress at other HSE run medical facilities or for other procedures; the consultation which has been carried out with the relevant practitioners in St. Vincent’s, particularly those in the pathology department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25934/09]

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213 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the possible outsourcing of pathology and blood tests from St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin; the rationale for outsourcing such tests to the private sector when the necessary skill set and experience exists in Health Service Executive facilities; if options have been explored for centralising such procedures at existing one or more HSE run laboratories; if a preferred bidder for this contract has been chosen; if a similar outsourcing process is in progress at other HSE run medical facilities or for other procedures; the consultation which has been carried out with the relevant practitioners in St. Vincent’s, particularly those in the pathology department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25934/09]

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1. 30 June 2009

   Hospital Services.

   213 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the possible outsourcing of pathology and blood tests from St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin; the rationale for outsourcing such tests to the private sector when the necessary skill set and experience exists in Health Service Executive facilities; if options have been explored for centralising such procedures at existing one or more HSE run laboratories; if a preferred bidder for this contract has been chosen; if a similar outsourcing process is in progress at other HSE run medical facilities or for other procedures; the consultation which has been carried out with the relevant practitioners in St. Vincent’s, particularly those in the pathology department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25934/09]

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