Results 1-2 of 2 for national treatment purchase fund segment:8676456
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Jul 2023)
Robert Troy: 849. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently expedite an appointment for surgery for a person (details supplied) or alternatively refer this patient through the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [34338/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Jul 2023)
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 waiting list for surgery, having been referred on to such a list following clinical assessment by a consultant/specialist at an outpatient clinic. The key...