Written answers

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Photo of Bríd SmithBríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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1665. To ask the Minister for Health the amounts paid by the HSE or other public bodies to a hospital (details supplied) in each of the years 2010 to 2020 and to date in 2021 for any services under the National Treatment Purchase Fund or other scheme to provide medical services for public patients. [18597/21]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) procures capacity for high-volume acute hospital procedures in order to reduce waiting times for patients. Such procedures may be procured in both private hospitals (outsourcing), or public hospitals (insourcing). In order to ensure competitive pricing as part of their outsourcing programme, the NTPF works with private hospitals from a panel agreement and engages in procurement processes through e-tender.

The HSE may also procure additional capacity and activity from private hospitals.

Neither the HSE nor the NTPF publish details regarding individual private hospitals, as such information is commercially sensitive.

The payments made to individual private hospitals or private hospital groups under agreements made in response to the Covid-19 pandemic are also commercially sensitive, therefore are confidential and the details of the individual payments will not be published.I am therefore not in a position to publish the amounts paid to the hospital the Deputy refers to.

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