Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, plays a very important role in addressing public waiting lists. That is more important now than ever. It is also crucial that acute hospitals in the public system co-operate with the NTPF as they go about their business, in the interest of patient safety. My information suggests that University Hospital Kerry has not been co-operating with the NTPF recently, resulting in significant delays for patients who are on waiting lists for scope procedures. How is this happening? Can he assure me that those patients will get the scope procedures that they need done? They are important diagnostic procedures. How can we ensure that this does not happen again? I ask for an explanation as to why this happened in the first place.

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