Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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83. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any evidence that there is alleged gaming of waiting lists at Beaumont Hospital, whereby citizens waiting for investigation or treatment are arbitrarily and unfairly removed from lists for non-reply to letters which had actually not been sent prior to them receiving letters informing those citizens they had been removed from the waiting lists concerned. [3955/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Special Delivery Unit (SDU) Protocol: The Management of Outpatient Services Ver 2.0 (Jan 2014) sets out the process for referral and management of outpatient services. The protocol also helps to maximise efficiency and reduce duplications. Also, 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, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up with them.