Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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625. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath has been waiting for some time for a hip replacement surgery in the Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore and when a date for same can be expected. [17774/14]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2013,has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has been adopted by the Health Service Executive, sets out the processes that hospitals are to implement to manage waiting lists.

In relation to this particular query raised by the Deputy, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him in this matter.