The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) is an
Irish government
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body which was established to decrease waiting lists in the Irish public
healthcare
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement or maintenance of health via the preventive healthcare, prevention, diagnosis, therapy, treatment, wikt:amelioration, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other disability, physic ...
system.
The Fund was established under Statutory Instrument 179 - National Treatment Purchase Fund (Establishment) Order, 2004, and the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act (2009). The NTPF reduced waiting times for
procedures from between 2 and 5 years in 2002 to an average of 2.4 months in 2009.
See also
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Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland
Health care in Ireland is delivered through public and private healthcare. The public Health system, health care system is governed by the Health Act 2004, which established a new body to be responsible for providing health and personal soc ...
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Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland
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