GP denied access to National Treatment Purchase Fund statistics

PEOPLE cannot know that the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) is providing value for money because it refuses to publish prices paid for treatments, according to a concerned GP.

The NTPF confirmed yesterday that, similar to private health insurers, it does not publish the amount it has paid for procedures as it is “commercially sensitive”.

The NTPF was established in July 2002 to minimise public patient waiting lists by using taxpayers’ money to buy procedures from private hospitals.