Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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655. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the NTPF pays per patient per eye for cataract surgery and IOL implants from initial consultation to final review. [54492/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) advises that it procures capacity for the procedures listed in both private hospitals or public hospitals.

In order to ensure competitive pricing as part of its outsourcing programme, the NTPF works with private hospitals from the existing panel agreement and engages in procurement processes through e-tender. The NTPF also works with legal advisors and procurement specialists to ensure that all funding is appropriately spent.

The NTPF advises that as procedures are tendered for through an open procurement process the cost per procedure would be commercially sensitive.