Written answers
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Department of Health and Children
National Treatment Purchase Fund
11:00 pm
Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 88: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 3 December 2009, if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be facilitated at another hospital to have their operation under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46403/09]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the scheduling of hospital treatment is a matter for the consultant and hospital concerned and is determined solely on the basis of medical priority. The question of the treatment appropriate to the circumstances of each individual patient is a matter of clinical responsibility over which I have no control. The scheduling of patients for hospital treatment is in each case determined on the basis of clinical need. Therefore, should the general practitioner consider that this person's condition warrants an earlier appointment, then he/she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant involved.
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