Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 December 2011
448 Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor asked the Minister for Health the funding available from the Health Service Executive if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin chooses to have a required selective dorsal rhizotomy operation in Bristol Hospital rather than St. Louis Hospital in the USA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39554/11]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe Health Service Executive operates a Treatment Abroad Scheme which allows for an Irish-based consultant to refer a patient who is normally resident in Ireland for treatment within the public health system in another EU/EEA member state or Switzerland, where the treatment in question meets certain criteria. The application to refer a patient abroad must be assessed and determination given prior to the patient availing of the treatment abroad.
Contact details and further information on the scheme can be found on the HSE website www.hse.ie. Link: http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/Find a Service/entitlements/E112/
