More Than 50% Increase In Long-Term Outpatient Waits At UHL

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There’s been a more than 50 percent surge in the number of people waiting a year and a half or more for an outpatient appointment at the region’s main hospital.

Latest figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund show that since October of last year, there’s been a rise of 2,000 in these figures.

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As of the end of October, there were just shy of 6,000 people waiting 18 months or more for an appointment at University Hospital Limerick.

Of that number, 5,710 were outpatient cases.

That’s up from 3,701 at the same time last year.

Overall, across both inpatient and outpatients, there were 33,409 people on waiting lists of varying lengths at University Hospital Limerick last month, an increase of around 1,500 on this time last year and about a thousand on September this year.

Waiting lists are also on the up at Ennis General.

At the end of October, 2,353 people were waiting on inpatient or outpatient appointments there, up from 2,023 a year ago.