Body calls for watchdog for fund charged with buying health services from the private sector

The Patient Safety Authority should be brought in to act as a watchdog over the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Body calls for watchdog for fund charged with buying health services from the private sector

The Patient Safety Authority should be brought in to act as a watchdog over the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

That is the call from Nursing Homes Ireland which says elderly people may be put at risk, because the fund is unaccountable.

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