Results 41-60 of 3,871 for national treatment purchase fund

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (5 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: 767. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek to require use of the health performance visibility platform at locations where work is contracted for public patients, such as through the national treatment purchase fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10713/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...that parents who require access to the neurology service can phone the secretary lines between 8.30am and 4pm Monday to Friday. The numbers are available on the CHI website. According to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, the number of patients waiting for outpatient neurology services in CHI Crumlin has reduced from 347 in December 2019 to 198 in January this year.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...waiting times for many scheduled appointments and procedures are too long and continue to be impacted 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. The 2023 Waiting List Action Plan built on the foundational work done in previous plans, achieving significant...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (29 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Stephen Donnelly: Adult and child waiting list information by hospital and specialty is published monthly and is available on the National Treatment Purchase Fund's website at: www.ntpf.ie/home/nwld.htm.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...House CEO Marie O'Malley. They both conveyed to me the enormous pressures that not-for-profit charitable nursing homes such as theirs are facing. The future is not looking bright as long as the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, continues to lowball them in contract negotiations. While these nursing homes provide vital local services to their local communities and do so at a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (27 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...how important it is and the care that will be provided to children there will be incredibly important. On waiting lists, it is important to set this on the record today so that we can compare it with figures in the future. The national treatment purchase fund waiting list figures for January 2024 show there are 1,135 patients on the outpatient urology waiting list in CHI. Of those, 55%...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...or if they wish to be removed. For a number of years validation was conducted at individual hospital level in Ireland but in 2018, the Minister for Health approved the establishment of the National Centralised Validation Unit (NCVU) within the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). The establishment of a centralised function has facilitated the introduction of a standardised approach...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (22 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 269. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revise the national treatment purchase fund calculation mechanism for funding fair deal stays in not-for-profit charitable nursing homes, such as Cahercalla Community Hospital in Ennis and Carrigoran Nursing Home, Newmarket-on-Fergus, to reflect rising costs in providing healthcare along with incidental costs often arising from HIQA inspections;...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Aids and Appliances (21 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...in each of the HSE areas across the county similar to what is offered in the South/South West Hospital Group area for women who have undergone mastectomies. Supports under that scheme include refunding of the cost of a prosthesis every two years and two free bras each year. Those supports apply to both those without medical cards and medical cardholders. Will the Minister of State...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Mary Butler: ...5% reduction in the number of children waiting for spinal procedures, excluding suspensions, at the end of 2023 compared with 2022. However, we are not for a moment saying that is good enough. Funding has been provided to deliver these vital orthopaedic and neurology services for children. Some €19 million was committed to scoliosis and spina bifida as a priority in both the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...that waiting times for many scheduled appointments and procedures are too long and continue to be impacted 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. The 2023 Waiting List Action Plan built on the foundational work done in previous plans, achieving significant...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...that waiting times for many scheduled appointments and procedures are too long and continue to be impacted 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. The 2023 Waiting List Action Plan built on the foundational work done in previous plans, achieving...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Adult and child waiting list information by hospital and specialty is published monthly and is available on the National Treatment Purchase Fund's website at: www.ntpf.ie/home/nwld.htm.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Adult and child waiting list information by hospital and specialty is published monthly and is available on the National Treatment Purchase Fund's website at: www.ntpf.ie/home/nwld.htm.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and unscheduled care demand. Cancelled hospital procedures/appointments are, where appropriate, rescheduled as early as possible with priority given to patients requiring time-sensitive and urgent treatment. The National Inpatient, Day Case, Planned Procedure (IDPP) waiting list management protocol 2017 issued by the National Treatment Purchase Fund requires hospitals to reschedule...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The HSE advises that a pilot project 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 Groups, and the support of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Correspondence (13 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has been tasked with managing the central purchase of salt stocks for national, regional and local roads. The upfront cost related to the purchase and stocking of salt for national roads is funded from TII’s grant allocation while the cost for regional and local roads is funded from the Department’s Regional and Local Roads Grant Programme...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (8 Feb 2024)

Neale Richmond: ...;s intention to increase the minimum salary thresholds for employment permits, including those associated with healthcare assistants and home care workers. The purpose of this change is to ensure fair treatment for employment permit holders and to allow them to qualify for the minimum threshold for family reunification. While the Minister has agreed to a deferral of this policy...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Correspondence (8 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has been tasked with managing the central purchase of salt stocks for national, regional and local roads. The upfront cost related to the purchase and stocking of salt for national roads is funded from TII’s grant allocation while the cost for regional and local roads is funded from the Department’s Regional and Local Roads Grant Programme...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (7 Feb 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 538. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to amend the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act 1961 to expand the role of the National Treatment Purchase Fund so that they may facilitate a subvention of public funding to provide private assessments of need for the 20 children waiting the longest in each county each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5320/24]