By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie Special advisor to the Government with responsibility for health and children, Mr Oliver O’Connor, has resigned for personal reasons to do with his family. Irish Medical Times understands that O’Connor resigned following the relocation of his wife to the UK by her employer, and that O’Connor now plans to set up [...]
The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has arranged treatment for just 7,894 inpatients and first-time consultations for 3,000 out-patients in the five months to the end of May. The Fund has claimed it will “facilitate approximately 31,000 patients in 2010” from its allocated budget. “The Fund is on schedule to meet this target,” an NTPF [...]
The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has announced that John Horan has been appointed Chairman of the Fund, replacing John O’Dwyer. Horan has been a Board member of the NTPF since 2007 and was the founding Chief Executive of Veterinary Ireland in 2001 — a position he held until his retirement in December 2009. He [...]
Greater efforts could be made to cut waiting times of over 12 months at five hospitals across the country, according to the Chief Executive of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). CEO Pat O’Byrne said the Fund was still experiencing difficulties with regard to Tallaght, Tullamore, Crumlin, Temple Street and Limerick Regional hospitals. “If a [...]
The National Treatment Purchase Fund has found a very large percentage of those who had their outpatient appointment did not need a procedure. This is particularly true in orthopaedics, where up to 70 per cent of those who saw a consultant do not need a procedure. “Very often, they need referral to a physiotherapist,” Minister [...]
Gary Culliton writes that a number of hospitals still have unacceptably long waiting lists that could be dealt with under the NTPF A patient on a waiting list to see a public-hospital consultant will not be treated by the same consultant in a private hospital under the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) as a result [...]
November NTPF figures show a total of 852 people waiting more than three months for a colonoscopy, an increase of 189 since September figures were published. This is despite an instruction from Health Minister Mary Harney to the HSE a year ago that patients needing a colonoscopy should not have to wait more than four [...]
The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has revealed that more than half of the 477 patients still waiting longer than 12 months for their operation are on waiting lists in just three hospitals. According to the latest figures from the Fund’s Patient Treatment Register (PTR) released today (December 1), 246 of these patients are on [...]
The number of patients waiting over nine months that have been recorded by their hospitals as unwilling to accept an offer of private treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund scheme is ‘surprising and must be a matter of some concern to the NTPF’, the Comptroller and Auditor General has said in its latest report. [...]
Under half of outpatients contacted by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) attended consultants last year. In arranging 12,342 outpatient consultations, 23,056 public patients were contacted by the NTPF. Of these, 5,579, or 24 per cent of patients were removed from public outpatient waiting lists when on contact they responded that they no longer required [...]
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