Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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767. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary funds via the national treatment purchase scheme will be made available to facilitate urgent spinal fusion surgery in the case of a person (details suppled); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29629/24]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) works with public hospitals, as opposed to with patients directly, to offer and provide the funding for treatment to clinically suitable patients who are on an inpatient/day case waiting list for surgery, having been referred on to such a list following clinical assessment by a consultant at an outpatient clinic.

While the NTPF identifies patients eligible for NTPF treatment, the clinical suitability of the patient to avail of NTPF funded treatment is determined by the public hospital.