NTPF will ‘insource’ to public hospital

Gary Culliton reports from the Department of Health’s press briefing on Budget 2017 last week at Government Buildings, where the Minister outlined a number of changes to how the NTPF is going to operate Patients can expect to hear from hospitals this year in regard to NTPF-funded procedures to be carried out early in 2017. Some €20 million was allocated to the National Treatment Purchase Fund in Budget 2017 and a further €50 million will be allocated in Budget 2018, the Government announced last week. The cash allocated in the Budget will cover outpatients, inpatients and diagnostic procedure, with Minister…