Results 1-20 of 3,813 for national treatment purchase fund

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Apr 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (23 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 633. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Donegal (details supplied) will get sanctioned for funding from the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17739/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 658. To ask the Minister for Health the services purchased by St. Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, under the national treatment purchase plan for the years 2021-2024; the breakdown of services purchased; the cost of these services, broken down by year and month, in tabular form. [17892/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 Apr 2024)

Joe McHugh: 671. To ask the Minister for Health the reason dermatology services at Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital have not been included as priority areas of focus in the national waiting list action plan, given the high proportion of patients waiting over 18 months, per the National Treatment Purchase Fund, for dermatology services in both hospitals; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Dr. Triona McCarthy: There has been National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, funding for trying to get some private outsourced counselling.

Éirí as Oifig an Taoisigh - Resignation of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...are a great State. We should love it, protect it and build on all that has been achieved since independence to make it better still. The second reflection is that most if not all of the problems we have faced in the past 15 years have been international or external in origin or have had an international dimension to them. The banking and financial crash, Brexit, the pandemic,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: 1238. To ask the Minister for Health when funds will be made available so that a surgery can be carried out (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13706/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1386 to 1393, 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: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...list. 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 a validation function within the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). The establishment of a centralised function has facilitated the introduction of a standardised approach to validation of waiting lists across all hospitals...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1468. To ask the Minister for Health if the NTPF has set out an activity plan for 2024 setting out the outpatient appointments, inpatient procedures and diagnostic evaluations and scopes that will be carried out in the course of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14708/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (9 Apr 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 Health: Hospital Services (9 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

David Cullinane: 1639. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the national treatment purchase fund on the outsourcing of appointments and procedures to private practice in public hospitals and private hospitals in each quarter of 2016-2020, inclusive, in tabular form. [15453/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (9 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1640 to 1642, inclusive, together. In relation to the particular query raised, the National Treatment Purchase Fund provided my Department with the attached table which outlines the waiting list information requested by the Deputy. Active Waiting Lists May 2016 ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2024: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

...to the individual case, we did tackle the issue of long waiters last year to a very successful level, although there is more to do. Regarding the use of private capacity for waiting lists, the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, uses that and it uses every possible option that is available. In terms of private capacity for beds to support emergency care during the winter, we had a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Energy Conservation (20 Mar 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ..., an agreed proportion of the resulting energy bill savings accrue to the ESCO rather than to the building owner. EPCs are very complex instruments, combining elements of a rental, a service, a lease, a purchase and a loan agreement. For EPCs to be worthwhile, it would need to be established that delivery capacity exists to actually achieve the desired volume of retrofit, in addition to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 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: National Treatment Purchase Fund (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Ring: 1322. To ask the Minister for Health the top five procedures which citizens availed of under the treatment purchase fund in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12000/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Mar 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

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: National Treatment Purchase Fund (7 Mar 2024)

Michael Ring: 346. To ask the Minister for Health to quantify the amount of money spent on the treatment purchase fund in each of the last five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11233/24]

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

Michael Ring: 351. To ask the Minister for Health the countries where treatment was delivered under the treatment purchase fund in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11248/24]