Results 81-100 of 3,872 for national treatment purchase fund

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]

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

Bernard Durkan: 329. To ask the Minister for Health to indicate what steps have been taken to ensure that patients seeking treatment for cataracts can expect to have their needs met in the shortest possible timeframe, whether the national treatment purchase scheme is being used to assist the most urgent cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2326/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...teams. They were bemoaning the fact, and we have heard it everywhere, that children in their schools cannot get assessed quick enough and cannot get therapeutic supports quick enough. The National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, works well for thousands of people, mostly older people who have problems like cataracts and varicose veins. Sometimes, they travel outside their jurisdiction...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Ms Hannah N? Ghiolla Mhairt?n: I believe the Deputy's suggestion around the National Treatment Purchase Fund is one that we definitely did not bring up and it sounds very interesting, especially for our members who are looking for the specialist CAMHS intellectual disabilities, ID, service for their children with intellectual disabilities who do not have access to anything. They have asked...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...over the lifetime of the Government. Nevertheless, much work related to the Programme for Government commitments has already been accomplished or commenced, as set out below. Department of Health National Carers’ Strategy Government policy on family carers is set out in the 2012 National Carers' Strategy which provides the strategic direction for future policies, services and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (17 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: ...for Money Review can be found by following this link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/3859f-a-value-for-money-review-of- nursing-home-care-costs/ The Department of Health published a review of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) pricing system in June 2021 and continues to work on bringing forward the recommendations that emerged from this review. This review can be found by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: ...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 (17 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: ...older people through the Nursing Home Support Scheme (Fair Deal). Some other types of residential care for older people are also supported through Section 39 grant agreements. Year-on-year funding for the Nursing Homes Support Scheme continues and will reach €1.5 billion this year. Nursing homes that renegotiated their Deed of Agreement with the National Treatment Purchase...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...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. The 2023 Waiting List Action Plan builds on the foundational work done in the 2021 and 2022 plans, both of which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Dec 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. The 2023 Waiting List Action Plan builds on the foundational work done in the 2021 and 2022 plans, both of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (13 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...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. The 2023 Waiting List Action Plan builds on the foundational work done in the 2021 and 2022 plans, both of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...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. The 2023 Waiting List Action Plan builds on the foundational work done in the 2021 and 2022 plans, both of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 732 to 739, inclusive, together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (12 Dec 2023)

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 to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Dec 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. The 2023 Waiting List Action Plan builds on the foundational work done in the 2021 and 2022 plans, both of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (12 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: In relation to the particular query raised, the National Treatment Purchase Fund has advised my Department that there were 11 children from County Cork who were awaiting scoliosis surgery in Children's Health Ireland Hospital Group (CHI) at the end of November, 5 patients waiting 0-6 months and 6 patients waiting over 6 months. There are no children on an inpatient waiting list for scoliosis...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I move: That Dáil Éireann, in accordance with the recommendation of the Women's Parliamentary Caucus: acknowledges that: - the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) requires a significant social transformation from a medical approach to disability, where economic development, health, and care economies can sustain the violation of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Dec 2023)

Mr. Seamus McCarthy: The financial statements relate to the National Treatment Purchase Fund board for 2022. They received a qualified audit opinion. The accounts in my opinion give a true and fair view except that they account for the cost of retirement benefit entitlements of staff only as they become payable. This is a standard qualification for health bodies, so there is nothing...