Patient Treatment Register (PTR)

The Patient Treatment Register (PTR) is a register of surgical and medical patients on in-patient/day-case and outpatient waiting lists in Ireland. It provides up to date information on wait times for in-patient/day-case treatments and outpatient new appointments.

Purpose: To report on the waiting list for both in-patient/day-case and outpatient patients. Provide statistics and trends. Provide basis for treatment commissioned by NTPF.

Data is received from a number of public hospitals. Private hospitals are not included.

Coverage: 46 Irish public hospitals report to PTR.

Data Collection: Dec ’07 – Present.

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Additional Info

Field	Value
Contact points	Contact point 1 URI Name National Treatment Purchase Fund Email data@national-treatment-p.ie Identifier
Publisher	Publisher 1 URI Name National Treatment Purchase Fund Email URL Type http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority Identifier
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Release date	January 1, 2005
Modification date	March 10, 2024
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Identifier	NDC-0110
Frequency	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/MONTHLY
Provenance	When a patient is placed on an in-patient/day-case or outpatient public hospital waiting list their details are submitted by secure encryption by the hospital to the NTPF and placed on the PTR. Both Inpatient and Outpatient data is collected every week.
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Temporal coverage	Temporal coverage 1 Start January 1, 2005 End July 8, 2024
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Spatial coverage	Spatial coverage 1 URI http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL Label Ireland Geometry Bounding Box Centroid
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Access rights	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/PUBLIC
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Theme	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language	http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
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Health category	http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/ehr
Health theme	http://health.europa.eu/theme/epidemiology http://health.europa.eu/theme/public-health http://health.europa.eu/theme/chronic-disease
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Minimum typical age	18
Maximum typical age	85
Number of records	623600
Number of records for unique individuals.	296137
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