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83 Miss Quill asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been referred abroad for treatment in the first eight months of 1996; the type of treatment involved; the health boards involved; the cost of each procedure carried out abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17133/96]
Limerick East): The information supplied to my Department by the regional health boards in relation to the number of patients referred abroad in the first eight months of 1996 is as set out in the following table:
Number of patients referred abroad for medical treatment January-August 1996.
|
Health Board |
Number of Patients |
Treatment |
Cost |
|
£ |
|||
|
Eastern Health Board |
6 |
Heart/lung transplant (adult) |
300,000 |
|
1 |
Heart/lung transplant (paediatric) |
39,463 |
|
|
3 |
Lung transplant |
90,000 |
|
|
4 |
Liver transplant (paediatric) |
207,452 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment lung transplant |
1,529 |
|
|
1 |
Liver resection (adult) |
13,531 |
|
|
2 |
Second opinion Fanconi's Anaemia |
330 |
|
|
2 |
Surgery for Metatrophic Dysplasia (part funded) |
79,244 |
|
|
4 |
Electrophysiological study and radio frequency ablation |
12,792 |
|
|
1 |
Cardiac electrophysiological and ablation studies |
10,513 |
|
|
2 |
Sperm storage |
240 |
|
|
1 |
Hyperbaric facility for emergency recompression |
13,812 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment of severe torticollis |
386 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment of autism |
2,318 |
|
|
3 |
Proton beam radiation and radiotherapy |
24,600 |
|
|
2 |
Amniocentesis |
630 |
|
|
2 |
Total body irradiation |
10,000 |
|
|
1 |
Proton beam radiotherapy |
5,150 |
|
|
1 |
Filiform showers and deep massage |
375 |
|
|
1 |
Transphenoidal surgery for Cushings Syndrome |
7,676 |
|
|
1 |
Bilateral adrenalectomy |
4,561 |
|
|
1 |
Isolated limb perfusion |
5,265 |
|
|
1 |
Radiofrequency ablation |
5,000 |
|
|
1 |
Radiotherapy of eye tumor |
1,639 |
|
|
1 |
UT mapping |
3,092 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment of progressive neurological condition |
123 |
|
|
1 |
Genetic counselling |
50 |
|
|
1 |
Second opinion Sticklers Syndrome |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Second opinion Retinitis Pigmentosa |
1,615 |
|
|
1 |
Consultation and follow up of rare eye condition |
1,133 |
|
|
1 |
ERCP |
2,000 |
|
|
1 |
Gancyclovir intra-vitreal implant |
7,343 |
|
|
1 |
Second opinion retinal infection |
75 |
|
|
1 |
Excision of eye tumour and radiation therapy |
4,810 |
|
|
1 |
Excisional lymphoedema |
4,324 |
|
|
1 |
1131 MIBG therapy |
6,000 |
|
|
1 |
Emergency ante-natal care |
5,000 |
|
|
1 |
Top up bone marrow transplant |
55,395 |
|
|
1 |
Stereotactic operation for Parkinson's |
7,000 |
|
|
1 |
Stereotactic radiosurgery |
8,000 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment of psychosurgery |
3,220 |
|
|
1 |
Physiotherapy |
128 |
|
|
1 |
Treatment/investigation Ollier's Disease |
7,105 |
|
|
1 |
Functional endoscopic sinus surgery |
1,102 |
|
|
1 |
Intravascular transfusion for Rhesus Disease |
5,000 |
|
|
1 |
Intractable epilepsy assessment |
60 |
|
|
1 |
Emergency recovery treatment |
317 |
|
|
Total |
67 |
||
|
Midland Health Board |
1 |
Irradiation treatment prior to bone marrow transplant |
7,000 (est) |
|
1 |
Treatment for melanoma |
7,000 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Assessment and liver transplant |
50,000 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Assessment/investigation of genetic neurological disorder |
7,000 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Stereotactic radiosurgery |
7,000 (est) |
|
|
Total |
5 |
||
|
Mid-Western Health Board |
2 |
Neurosurgery review |
670 |
|
1 |
Review of congenital heart disease |
540 |
|
|
1 |
Review of craniofacial surgery |
562 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment for lung transplant |
1,500 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment of chronic arthritis |
18,104 |
|
|
1 |
Hypothermia treatment for cancer |
7,000 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment of cardiac problems |
10,000 |
|
|
1 |
Insertion of thoraco-amniotic shunt |
1,000 |
|
|
1 |
Neurosurgical assessment |
6,500 |
|
|
2 |
Assessment for insertion of fetal shunt |
1,100 |
|
|
1 |
Review of heart and lung transplant |
3,000 |
|
|
1 |
Review of double lung transplant |
40,000 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment for heart and lung transplant |
1,428 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment of nerve and blood vessel injury |
19,320 |
|
|
1 |
Cardiac review |
8,800 |
|
|
1 |
Review of respiratory disease |
1,900 |
|
|
1 |
Pallidectomy |
6,000 |
|
|
1 |
Heart and lung transplant |
40,000 |
|
|
1 |
Assesment re left choroidal malignant melanoma |
3,500 |
|
|
Total |
21 |
||
|
North-Eastern Health Board |
1 |
Heart/lung transplant evaluation |
not available yet |
|
1 |
Liver transplant |
25,000 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Vascular trauma |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Lung transplant assessment |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Neursurgery |
6,700 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Neurosurgery |
9,500 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Assessment for severe audrigen sensitivity |
800 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Chardial melanoma |
3,500 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Radio frequency ablatun for supra ventricular tachycardria |
10,000 (est) |
|
|
Total |
9 |
||
|
North-Western Health Board |
1 |
Malignant melanoma of eye |
not available yet |
|
1 |
DNA test |
550 |
|
|
1 |
Cochlear implant |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Trigenimal neuraliga |
4,335 |
|
|
1 |
Assessment lung transplant |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Gender reassignment |
3,762 |
|
|
Total |
6 |
||
|
South Eastern Health |
1 |
Opinion re: eye condition |
2,000 |
|
Board |
1 |
Assessment re:bronchiectasis |
under 10,000 |
|
1 |
Out-patient follow up re: Gaucher's Disease |
532 |
|
|
1 |
Radiotherapy re: eye melanoma |
under 10,000 |
|
|
1 |
Total body irradiation |
under 10,000 |
|
|
1 |
Neurosurgical pallidotomy |
7,000 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Opinion re:eye condition |
2,000 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Surgical repair of aortic aneurysm |
10,000 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Diagnosis of ocular tumour |
under 10,000 |
|
|
1 |
Heart/lung transplant |
60,000 |
|
|
1 |
Bone marrow transplant |
60,000 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Out patient follow up re: eye surgery |
under 10,000 |
|
|
1 |
Urethroplasty |
6,675 (est) |
|
|
Total |
13 |
||
|
Southern Health Board |
1 |
Psychiatric disorder |
4,000 |
|
1 |
Cardiology (ablation of left accessary pathway) |
4,000 |
|
|
2 |
Ophthalmology |
16,900 |
|
|
2 |
Heart lung transplant (currently on waiting list) |
100,000 (est) |
|
|
1 |
Isolated limb perfusion |
2,900 |
|
|
2 |
Genetic counselling |
200 |
|
|
1 |
Management of paediatric lupus |
6,000 |
|
|
1 |
Microsurgical nerve grafting |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Investigation and management of myopathy |
2,500 |
|
|
1 |
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy |
2,200 |
|
|
1 |
Neurosurgery |
8,000 |
|
|
1 |
Frasers Syndrome (out-patient appointment) |
150 |
|
|
1 |
Post liver transplant (out-patient appointment) |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Radiotherapy follow up (out-patient appointment) |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Genetic disorder |
5,000 |
|
|
1 |
Opthalmaic (out-patient appointment) |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Severe combined immune deficiency |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Thoracic |
not available yet |
|
|
Southern Health Board |
1 |
Neurosurgery follow up |
not available yet |
|
1 |
Radiotherapy/chemotherapy follow up |
not available yet |
|
|
2 |
Liver assessment (paediatric) |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Post heart transplant review (paediatric) |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Intestinal problems |
not available yet |
|
|
1 |
Lung transplant |
not available yet |
|
|
Total |
29 |
||
|
Western Health Board |
2 |
Heart/lung transplant |
133,600 |
|
1 |
Lung treatment follow up |
250 |
|
|
1 |
Bone marrow treatment follow up |
150 |
|
|
1 |
Tumour removal |
6,000 |
|
|
1 |
Cystic Fibrousis test |
130 |
|
|
1 |
Aperts Syndrome |
1,540 |
|
|
1 |
Chronic epilepsy |
1,600 |
|
|
1 |
Chronic language difficulty |
451 |
|
|
1 |
Extrophy |
2,000 |
|
|
1 |
Arterio venous malfunction |
8,000 |
|
|
1 |
Rare multiple bleeding |
74 |
|
|
1 |
Cranio abnormality |
130 |
|
|
Total |
13 |
