Written answers
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Department of Health
National Treatment Purchase Fund
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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1706. To ask the Minister for Health if the treatment purchase scheme provides coverage for endometriosis treatment; and to provide an annual breakdown of endometriosis treatment provided under the scheme in each of the years 2017 to 2024. [11718/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has advised the Department that it does not collect the data necessary to allow it to determine how many gynaecology outpatient appointments or inpatient/day case procedures funded by the NTPF related to a diagnosis of or treatment for endometriosis.
The NTPF has provided the data attached showing the number of gynaecology outpatient appointments and inpatient/day case procedures approved for funding by the NTPF in the time period 2017-2024.
NTPF Insourcing Initiatives for Gynaecology
- | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Outpatient | 951 | 1,730 | 4,456 | 4,215 | 4,640 | 4,176 | 5,574 | |
Inpatient/Daycase | 880 | 434 | 1,524 | 709 | 637 | 836 |
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