Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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203. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has been referred by a general practitioner to Cork University Hospital for a hip replacement will be provided with a date for the procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36278/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, 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 2014,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 the particular query raised by the Deputy, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him on this matter.