Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can change the hospital into which they are booked under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9157/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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The primary remit of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) is to facilitate treatment for those public patients waiting longest for surgery. The NTPF is working with Tallaght hospital to facilitate treatment in the first place for patients waiting longer than 12 months for surgery. Thereafter it will be in a position to focus on patients waiting for less than 12 months. It is open to the patient's general practitioner to contact the hospital about the case, if he/she is of the opinion that the patients condition merits more immediate attention.