We must plan for future as waiting lists grow, warns IHCA

Prof Alan Irvine, President of the IHCA
We must plan for future as waiting lists grow, warns IHCA
Plans to tackle growing waiting lists after the current surge in Covid-19 cases ends must begin now, the President of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association has said.
New figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) showed there were now 838,675 people in Ireland in the queue for hospital treatment.
By the end of 2020, the number waiting on an outpatient appointment to see a specialist had increased by 50,000 since the start of 2020 to 606,230.
The NTPF data released last Friday (January 15) also showed that 72,475 patients were waiting for inpatient or day case treatment, while 32,539 were waiting for a gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy.

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