Results 181-200 of 3,873 for national treatment purchase fund

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (29 Jun 2023)

Heather Humphreys: The CLÁR Programme provides funding under a number of different measures for small-scale infrastructural projects in designated rural areas that have experienced significant levels of depopulation over a defined period. Since its relaunch in 2016, it has supported a wide range of measures, and funding of over €57 million has been approved for almost 2,100 projects. In 2022...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...are being crucified. Take the issue of energy prices. Prices are 26% higher than in the EU. How can the Minister of State hold his head up and how can Ireland take its rightful place among the nations of the EU and allow this to continue? Other EU countries introduced windfall taxes a year ago, or more than a year ago. Legislation on this was introduced here last night. It might not...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (28 Jun 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: Information on the allocation of voted expenditure is published each December in the Revised Estimates for Public Services, also known as the REV. This details the funding allocated to each Vote by programme and subhead. The REV also contains expenditure information on Non-Commercial State Agencies (NCSAs). The Summary Table Exchequer Expenditure of Non Commercial State Agencies printed in...

Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

David Cullinane: ...that this problem will go away because it will not. He is hearing first-hand what is being told with regard to the extent of the crisis. The Ministers quite rightly spoke about the additional funding that was made available for PPE, oxygen and the temporary assistance payment scheme, TAPS, and the temporary inflation payment scheme, TIPS, all of which I welcomed. It must be borne in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...waiting times for many scheduled appointments and procedures were too long before and have been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Department of Health continues to work with the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to identify ways to improve access to care. On the 7th March, I published the 2023 Waiting List Action Plan, which is the next stage of a new multi-annual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Stephen Donnelly: ...and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to the query raised by the Deputy as to why a particular individual has not been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...waiting times for many scheduled appointments and procedures were too long before and have been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Department of Health continues to work with the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to identify ways to improve access to care. On the 7th March, I published the 2023 Waiting List Action Plan, which is the next stage of a new multi-annual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...waiting times for many scheduled appointments and procedures were too long before and have been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Department of Health continues to work with the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to identify ways to improve access to care. On the 7th March, I published the 2023 Waiting List Action Plan, which is the next stage of a new multi-annual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (27 Jun 2023)

Mary Butler: The long-established statutory mechanism through which private and voluntary nursing homes are funded was established by the Oireachtas under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009. This legislation outlines the process for private and voluntary providers to negotiate the prices for their services with the designated State agency, the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). Maximum...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (22 Jun 2023)

Mary Butler: ...cost of care has increased from €1,674 per week in 2021 to €1,698 per bed per week in 2022. The 1.4% increase can be attributed to pay increases provided under the Lansdowne Road Agreement (funded separately to Nursing Homes Support Scheme - NHSS - funds allocated within the HSE Service Plan 2022). These costs do not relate to the amount a person will pay towards their care...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Engagement with An Taoiseach (22 Jun 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ..., for therapists, psychologists and social workers. That might take a few years to have an effect, but if we do not do it now, it will never have an effect. We are giving consideration to funding people who go private. There is a bit of that happening already, but not in a systemic way. We do it pretty regularly in healthcare, through the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, and the...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...80% of those beds were in privately owned care homes. The fair deal rate that the six Care Choice homes in Cork, including Beaumont Residential Care, require to be sustainable is €1,270 per resident per week but they are currently receiving €1,085 from the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. Just to add to the confusion, the NTPF is unwilling to agree that sustainable...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Jun 2023)

Mary Butler: ...was designed to protect and support vulnerable older people, to ensure equal access to nursing home care based on what they could afford. This gives certainty to people and families. Government funding for Fair Deal is to support vulnerable older people at a time in their lives where full-time care is essential. The Department of Health acknowledges that there are variations in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...waiting times for many scheduled appointments and procedures were too long before and have been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Department of Health continues to work with the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to identify ways to improve access to care. On the 7th March, I published the 2023 Waiting List Action Plan, which is the next stage of a new multi-annual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Service Executive (HSE) advises that a pilot project was commenced in 2016 by the HSE Acute Hospitals Division to progress the collection of national radiology waiting list data. The project has been supported by the Radiology Clinical Care Programme and has involved key stakeholders across the system including the National Integrated Medical Imaging System (NIMIS) Team, Hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Robert Troy: 676. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a hip replacement surgery for a person (details supplied) through the national treatment purchase fund. [29422/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...there are 50-odd residents who are very worried. Their families are very worried. Care Choice deferred its decision to pull out of the fair deal in light of the fact that, as I had asked, the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, would meet with it. There have been meetings.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...service. A very different picture was presented by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association on Friday in a press statement it put out, detailing that 893,000 people are now on some form of National Treatment Purchase Fund waiting list, that a further 250,000 people are waiting for diagnostic scans and that hospital cancellations could exceed 250,000 a year if the rate continues, with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (Resumed) (14 Jun 2023)

Mr. Bernard Gloster: As I have said many times, the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, sets the rate for private nursing homes. Am I satisfied with the cost of public care? In general, I am, given the dependency level of our residents. We are also fixed with public sector staffing costs and other issues that drive some of the costs. I have looked at the issue in Abbeyleix and I am...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (13 Jun 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...It is expected that it will be completed in June 2024. I am delighted to confirm that waiting lists for endoscopy services at Bantry General Hospital are reducing and that more people are getting the treatment they need. The National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, has approved insourcing endoscopy initiatives for funding for Bantry General Hospital, which will facilitate treatment for...