Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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388. To ask the Minister for Health the dermatology waiting lists nationally by hospital. [50572/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Improving access to hospital treatment is a key priority of the Government. In Budget 2019 the Government has further increased investment in this area, with funding to the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to increase from €55m in 2018 to €75m in 2019

My Department is working closely with the National Treatment Purchase Fund and the HSE to finalise a Scheduled Care Access Plan for 2019 before the end of this year.

I recently met with the CEO's of all hospital groups and requested that they develop innovative proposals to address their outpatients lists in 2019.

In 2019, the NTPF will continue to work closely with Hospital Groups, inviting proposals to improve access for patients waiting for either Inpatient/Daycase or Outpatient procedures. NTPF authorisations are made in respect of the longest waiting patients first.

The data requested by the Deputy is contained in the attached documents.

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