Written answers
Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Department of Health
Hospital Services
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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1639. To ask the Minister for Health the spend by the national treatment purchase fund on the outsourcing of appointments and procedures to private practice in public hospitals and private hospitals in each quarter of 2016-2020, inclusive, in tabular form. [15453/24]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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In relation to the particular query raised, the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) provided my Department with the attached table which outlines the expenditure relating to the outsourcing of appointments and procedures to Private Hospitals in each year 2016-2020.
The NTPF does not fund private activity in public hospitals. The NTPF has advised that in 2016 it provided administrative support to a special HSE initiative whereby longest waiting public patients were treated in private hospitals. This support concerned disbursing payments to the participating private hospitals.
| 2016** | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenditure to private hospitals | 30,387,932 | 9,948,651 | 31,420,173 | 29,204,118 | 22,957,536 |
*NTPF does not fund private activity in public hospitals.
**In 2016 NTPF provided administrative support to a special HSE initiative whereby longest waiting public patients were treated in private hospitals. This support concerned disbursing payments to the participating private hospitals.
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