Search Results for 'National Treatment Purchase Fund'

Close to 1,400 people on the outpatient list at University Hospital Galway are waiting for more than two years for their treatment, a situation which has been described as “truly shocking” by Sinn Féin senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh.

A local county councillor has accused the Minister for Health of approving a service plan which will result in “drastic” cuts and increasing waiting times for hospital procedures.

University Hospital Galway is one of eight public hospitals responsible for almost 60 per cent of the country’s trolley waiting problem.

More jobs are to be created at the Bon Secours Hospital due to the proposed addition of new services, the official opening of the new €15 million expansion of facilities at the Renmore hospital was told recently.

A new agency tasked with reducing and eliminating hospital waiting lists will lead to Galway being prioritised for funding and other benefits, that is according to the chairperson of HSE West regional health forum, Padraig Conneely.

A former vice chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum says the new Government must lift the embargo on staff recruitment at the city’s public hospitals if it is seriously committed to a one-tier public health system.

It is clear that the Government has not acknowledged the legacy of Susie Long from Kilkenny who died from colon cancer three years ago, as recent figures report that there are still 1,854 people waiting three months or more for colonoscopy examinations.

A local politician has accused the Government of having “no real desire” to end hospital waiting lists.

Some 4,047 of Kilkenny’s longest waiting public patients have now benefited from faster treatment through the work of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).

Local private and voluntary nursing homes are struggling under the weight of expenses as they attempt to comply with new standard regulations, a national representative group has claimed.