Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 May 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health
9:30 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
Okay. Well, I have not heard about this on any scale or heard it as a thematic issue. However, I would say that there are two stages of the waiting list process for everybody. The first is from general practitioner referral to consultation with a consultant as an outpatient. That will result in either a discharge, a review or a referral onto another procedure. If it requires another procedure, the patient then goes onto the inpatient day case waiting list to be treated via that. The National Treatment Purchase Fund operates across both, so it is not the case that the fund-----
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