About the NTPF

The NTPF is a corporate body with functions and responsibilities as set out under Statutory Instrument 179 - National Treatment Purchase Fund (Establishment) Order, 2004 and the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act (2009). 

Its key functions are:

  • Arranging for the provision of hospital treatment to classes of persons determined by the Minister;
  • Collecting, collating and validating information on persons waiting for public hospital treatment;
  • Agreeing pricing arrangements with private & voluntary nursing homes under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme
  • Furnishing advice to the Minister for Health on related issues
  • Performing any other function assigned by the Minister for Health, since July 2012 this includes responsibility for the publication of outpatient waiting lists

In carrying out its functions, the NTPF works closely with the Department of Health, the HSE, acute public hospitals and private nursing homes across the health system.

NTPF Senior Management Team

Liam Sloyan, Chief Executive Officer
Sean Flood, Finance Director
Liz Lottering, Audit, Quality and Research Director, Board Secretary
Eoin Darcy, ICT Director
Eamonn Horgan, Corporate Services Director
Alison Green, Process Innovation Director

Phone number: +3531 6427 101

The following is the list of private hospitals that are included in the existing panel agreement in place with NTPF :

  • Beacon Hospital
  • Blackrock Clinic
  • Bon Secours Hospital Cork
  • Bon Secours Hospital Dublin
  • Bon Secours Hospital Galway
  • Bon Secours Hospital Limerick
  • Bon Secours Hospital Tralee
  • Charter Medical Private Hospital
  • Galway Clinic
  • The Hermitage Medical Clinic
  • Kingsbridge Private Hospital Belfast
  • Kingsbridge Private Hospital North West
  • Kingsbridge Private Hospital Sligo
  • Mater Private Cork
  • Mater Private Dublin
  • The Sports Surgery Clinic
  • St Vincent’s Private Hospital
  • UPMC Aut Even Hospital
  • UPMC Kildare Hospital
  • UPMC Whitfield Hospital

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