Search Results for 'National Treatment Purchase Fund'
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High noon as HSE West prepares to wield axe on local services
A leading local trade union official says he is hopeful that the powerful campaign mounted by the public against the proposed health cuts may influence the HSE West when it wields its axe today (Thursday).
Burke takes double swipe at Government
With 80 per cent of the new unemployed in the last two years under 30, and over 1,000 patients waiting more than three months for a colonoscopy, Cllr Peter Burke believes the latest figures represent “the human cost of failed Government policies” and that “the savage cuts to healthcare are now having a direct impact on patients”.
HSE cuts will set back nation’s dental health by a decade, warn dentists
Almost 68,000 local medical card holders will be denied routine dental treatments, including fillings and extractions as well as dentures and treatment of gum disease, due to HSE cuts, according to the Irish Dental Association.
Kilkenny’s longest waiting patients
Some 3,691 of Kilkenny’s longest waiting public patients have now benefited from faster treatment through the work of the National Treatment Purchase Fund.
Nineteen thousand local public patients benefited from National Treatment Purchase Fund
More than 19,000 of Galway’s longest waiting public patients have benefited from faster treatment through the work of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), a Government initiative designed to cut hospital waiting lists by offering public patients treatment in private hospitals.
Mayo patients get faster hospital treatment on National Treatment Purchase Fund
More than 5,600 of Mayo’s longest waiting public patients have now benefited from faster treatment through the work of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). According to the latest figures released by the fund, to end of March, a total of 169,479 public patients throughout the country have now had their treatment arranged. There has also been significant progress in reducing the waiting times of public patients awaiting surgery in Mayo and elsewhere throughout the country.
Galway Clinic awarded €8.2 million under National Treatment Fund
The Galway Clinic was awarded €8.2 million this year under the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).
Breakthrough for patients awaiting surgery
Thousands of patients across Carlow and Kilkenny have now benefited from speedier treatment through the work of the National Treatment purchase fund (NTPF).
Physiotherapists believed primary care jobs would be forthcoming
Newly appointed chairman of the HSE South forum committee on community and continuing care, Councillor Michael O’Brien, has slammed the Government for misleading recently graduated physiotherapists.
Colonoscopy waiting list priorities determined on clinical need
Colonoscopy scopes are scheduled by consultants on the basis of clinical priority, accoring to a statement issued by the HSE.
