Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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234. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been treated under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29857/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Improving waiting times for hospital procedures is a key commitment in the Programme for Government and in 2018 €50 million was allocated to the NTPF to provide treatment for patients. The Inpatient/Day Case Action Plan 2018 outlines the combined impact of HSE and NTPF activity in 2018. Under the Plan, the NTPF activity will target provision of 22,000 inpatient day case procedures in 2018.

The NTPF advises that as at the end of June, across insourcing, outsourcing and scopes initiatives, almost 22,000 patients have been authorised for treatment. Of these, over 11,100 have accepted offers of treatment and of these almost 9,000 patients have treated to date in 2018.