Results 61-80 of 3,871 for national treatment purchase fund

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (7 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...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

...the spend in 2021. The vast majority of the expenditure, amounting to just over €23.3 billion, spread across 14 of the Vote subheads, was paid to the HSE. A further €125 million was allocated to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. Receipts into the Vote in 2022 totalled €458 million. At year end, net expenditure under the Vote was €42 million less...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (1 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: Hospital Appointments Status (1 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) works with public hospitals, as opposed to with patients directly, to offer and provide the funding for treatment to clinically suitable long waiting patients who are on an Inpatient/Day case or Outpatient waiting list. The key criteria of the NTPF is the prioritisation of the longest waiting patients first. While the NTPF identifies patients...

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: ...of care, but are themselves persons with stand-alone rights and entitlements to live a full and meaningful life, supported principally by the services of the State as obliged upon the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), as well as the care of their families; - the care provided by family carers is unsustainable without the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...to discuss his Department's Estimates. I have been pursuing this issue for some time with the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and his Ministers of State. We are all familiar with the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. It works very well for the adult population. Many people have had cataracts treated as well as varicose veins. I have looked at the terms of the NTPF,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...are not engaging with political forums or processes. As a result, the question asked by the Deputy may be delayed in receiving a response directly from the HSE. As regards extending the role of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). The NTPF was established under the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act 1961, with the function of providing hospital treatment for citizens and the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: In the funding streams I notice the Minister's budget is vast. I see the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, as being a very positive mechanism. There is space to further elaborate and broaden its scope. At the moment, as I understand it, it is largely around elective surgeries and getting people off long waiting lists and it is doing so very effectively. I know many people who have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (30 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Neale Richmond: ...continue to make the case for that individual, as he has been doing as a local representative. Regarding waiting times for orthopaedic surgery patients in Cork East, this feeds into the overall national change that sees that for the second year in a row, national hospital waiting times and waiting lists actually fell. On the core Sláintecare wait time target, an 11% reduction was...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Johnny Mythen: ...Waterford. This is adding hours - often vital hours - to the process whereby people receive diagnoses. Will the Taoiseach, under the programme for Government, commit to extending the remit of the National Treatment Purchase Fund to allow it to secure timely psychological assessments for children and adults? Will the Government assess the possibility of filling the psychologist post at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (18 Jan 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: The number of residential beds available for drug treatment services in 2023 was 1,036. According to 2022 National Drug Treatment Reporting System data the total number of cases treated for problem drug use was 12,009. This is the highest annual number recorded to- date. 1,458 cases received inpatient (overnight) treatment. Separately, there were 7,421 cases treated for alcohol as the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: 25. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that in December 2023 an organisation (details supplied) stated that the latest National Treatment Purchase Fund figures confirm that the three main health care waiting lists are at a virtual standstill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1647/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: ...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. Funding to support people to access services in the sector continues to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Jan 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...announced a new €10 million scheme to improve infection prevention and fire safety in private and voluntary nursing homes. The Nursing Home Resident Safety Improvement (RSI) Scheme will provide funding towards structural works carried out in compliance with standards published by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) under Regulation 27 (Protection against infection)...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...commitments has already been accomplished or commenced, as set out below. Department of Health Carers’ Guarantee In the area of health, for which I am directly responsible, annually recurring funding of €2 million was provided in Budget 2021 under the National Carers’ Strategy to improve equity of access to supports for carers across the country. This funding is an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: ...within their Community Healthcare Organisation. The memo also underlines that basic aids and appliances necessary to assist a person with the activities of daily living are included in the National Treatment Purchase Fund deed of agreement for private nursing homes. It is hoped that this communication will emphasize that eligibility for these services is the same, whether older people...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Carol Nolan: 312. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take action to assist in an urgent case of a person requiring access to the National Treatment Purchase Fund (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2236/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: ...75% of year-on-year cost increases up to a monthly cap of €5,250 per nursing home. This scheme was extended for a second time to the end of June 2023. Budget 2023 saw over €40 million in additional funding for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (NHSS or Fair Deal) which is providing for an uplift in the maximum prices chargeable by private and voluntary nursing homes, as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 322. To ask the Minister for Health to indicate if and when cataracts treatment might be made available to a person (details supplied); if the details of the national treatment purchase scheme can be invoked as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2312/24]