Written answers
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Department of Health and Children
National Treatment Purchase Fund
10:00 am
David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 294: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount expended each year and to date in 2007 on the National Treatment Purchase Fund since the fund was established; the number of operations and procedures that have been undertaken through the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6014/07]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) was established in April 2002 to treat public patients who had been longest waiting on surgical in-patient waiting lists. The NTPF became a statutory body in May 2004.
The funding allocated to the NTPF since 2002 is as follows:- 2002: â¬5 million, 2003: â¬30 million, 2004: â¬44 million, 2005: â¬64 million, 2006: â¬78 million, 2007: â¬88.5 million.
At the end of 2006, the NTPF had arranged surgery for 52,962; out-patient appointments for 10,250 and MRI scans for 1,928 persons.
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