Question from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 67020-25
Deputy O'Flynn asked about the number and cost of standard lipid profile tests ordered from primary care. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and public affairs
Published: November 2025
Updated: January 2026
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 976 and 977 of 12 November 2025, if she is satisfied that her Department and the HSE do not collect centrally the number and cost of standard lipid profile tests ordered from primary care, in view of the acknowledgement that this information is not held in a national dataset; the way in which she assesses value-for-money in primary care laboratory testing in the absence of this information; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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