Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

349. To ask the Minister for Health the current NTPF rates per bed for hospitals (details supplied). [33512/16]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

Midleton Community Hospital, St. Patrick's Community Hospital, Fermoy, and Bandon Community Hospital are public nursing homes. The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has no role in setting or negotiating prices for public residential care facilities. The maximum prices to be paid in public facilities, and referred to as the cost of care, are set by the HSE. The cost for each public nursing home is determined using the definition of long-term residential care services underpinned by an agreed set of cost components which have been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. These include pay and non-pay goods and services.

The HSE has recently published the cost of care for all public nursing homes on their website .

The weekly cost of care in each of the aforementioned nursing homes is as follows: