Vol. 520 No. 5
128 Mr. Aylward asked the Minister for Health and Children if, further to an earlier parliamentary question, a person referred by their general practitioner to a public hospital for an x-ray is liable for the cost of the x-ray if they attend a consultant in a private capacity thereafter. [16282/00]
The Health (Amendment) Act, 1991 removed the entitlement to combine public and private elements of out-patient or in-patient care at the same time. The position now is that every patient is entitled to full public hospital services including public accommodation and public consultant care. Alternatively one can opt to be the private patient of both the consultant and the hospital.
