The National Treatment Purchase Fund – A success for some patients yet a public policy failure?
In 2002 the Irish Government announced the establishment of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) as a means of addressing patients’ long wait times for public hospital treatment. A new health strategy published in December 2001 promised that ‘by the end of 2004 all public patients will be sch...
Main Authors: | Burke Sara, Brugha Ruairí, Thomas Steve |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sciendo
2019-05-01
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Series: | Administration |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2019-0013 |
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