The senior advisor at the Department of Health’s Special Delivery Unit (SDU) expects to have the first set of targets for waiting times for outpatient appointments available by April this year.
Consultancy services now sought for SDU
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. Hawkins House has gone to tender for further consultancy services to help reduce hospital waiting times, Irish Medical Times reports.
SDU to tackle leadership
September 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. A key meeting last week involving the Special Delivery Unit’s (SDU) Dr Martin Connor, the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) examined the issue of clinical leadership from the hospital sector, a spokesperson for the Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has informed Irish Medical Times.
Breaking news: No 12-month waits by year end
July 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. All public hospitals are being instructed to ensure they have no patients waiting more than 12 months by the end of the year. The Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has also announced changes in the role of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), which will take place with immediate effect.
Transparency would have its ‘drawbacks’
March 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The CEO of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has defended the lack of transparency in the prices the Fund pays per procedure purchased from private hospitals, revealing that the same modus operandum would be used for purchasing services from individual private nursing homes.
Navigating through a whirlwind campaign
February 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Dara Gantly says that the short run-in to this election has had its disadvantages, including the absence of thorough debates on monumental healthcare proposals.
Labour plans to abolish NTPF
February 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Gary Culliton. The Labour Party plans to make major savings in consultants’ pay costs, cut hospital waiting lists, and abolish the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) if elected to power.
New waiting time data released
December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Fifteen of 36 hospitals, topped by the Children’s University Hospital Temple Street, have a median wait time for medical and surgical patients longer that the average waiting time across all specialties of 2.3 months. Temple Street, which has a waiting list of 4.6 months, is followed by University College Hospital Galway (4.1 months) with a [...]
One-third decline NTPF help
December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie An analysis and review by the NTPF of waiting-time data provided by hospitals (44) in 2010 found that nearly one-third of patients waiting for more than nine months were doing so because they needed to be scheduled for treatment in their own hospital either for clinical reasons or because they had [...]
DÁIL Report
October 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
NTPF rejects finding of C&AG By Gary Culliton gary.culliton@imt.ie The Chief Executive of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) Pat O’Byrne has rejected a finding by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) that the consultant referring and treating the patient was the same for 8.5 per cent of treatments provided under the Fund. In his [...]
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