Written answers
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Department of Health and Children
National Treatment Purchase Fund
11:00 am
Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 275: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will urgently arrange for a person (details supplied) in County Cork to be admitted for hip replacement surgery under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this person's consultant advised them that he would schedule them for surgery without delay on medical grounds as this person suffered from polio and despite this commitment, no surgery appointment has been issued and the person is in excruciating pain. [11133/07]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
Patients waiting more than three months on a surgical waiting list may qualify for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund. It is open to the person in question or anyone acting on her behalf to contact the Fund directly in relation to this case.
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