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delivery on commitments. The multiannual waiting list action plan approach, which commenced in September 2021, facilitates target setting and monitoring for acute hospital waiting list performance and has been highly effective in improving waiting times for our hospital services. While it is acknowledged that further improvements are needed … Fund. The scope of the best practice reporting programme is to implement waiting time and waiting list reporting for patients on acute hospital waiting lists. The greater access to meaningful wait time information for patients and practitioners that will be provided through best practice reporting will assist

degree of transparency to waiting lists. At the end of every month, the NTPF publishes some waiting lists. It publishes the acute hospital waiting list, which is very welcome, but it does not publish diagnostic waiting lists or community waiting lists. It does not cover mental health waiting … want to be here in five years' time again still talking about problems with managing waiting lists or about people waiting too long; still waiting for the elective hospitals to be built or the 3,000 beds that Stephen Donnelly promised, which we will not see delivered over

many across our public healthcare system at the moment is of unacceptably long wait lists. Currently, 625,000 people are on acute hospital outpatient waiting lists and 110,000 are waiting a year or more. While the targets are there, only 30.5% of people are being seen within … questions across the various hospitals, we saw that the next available appointment in Beaumont for a Holter monitor is June 2026. In St. James's, the average waiting time is 22 months. It has only ten monitors and 733 patients on the waiting list. In Galway, 600 people

reduce waiting lists until we put capacity into the system. We have to build the four elective hospitals. We have to deliver on the hospital beds. We have to deliver on the diagnostic capacity. We have to upgrade equipment. We need new equipment in some hospitals … doing it because we do not believe we can do it to the same standard as acute hospital waiting lists is not a satisfactory response. We have an entitlement to the highest levels of transparency. I imagine it frustrates patients that we spend tens of billions every year

services. Supply-side interventions are needed for investment in primary and community care so that our hospitals are not the default but supply-side policies alone will not address the waiting list problems. Sláintecare is clear on the requirement for maximum wait-time guarantees and the need … holding those guarantees are held to account. This is why we need legislation like this. Currently, the NTPF publishes monthly acute hospital waiting lists and some diagnostic waiting lists. However, those for other areas, such as primary care, are not routinely published. Instead, these must be sought

appropriate to ensure effective priorities and target setting as well as the live and extensive reporting of waiting list information. In addition, access to accurate data about patients waiting for service across the system is recognised as being crucial to how we can facilitate access to those services … address the key issue of the length of time people are waiting for treatment. The improvements achieved in terms of acute hospital waiting lists and waiting times are being driven by specific actions aimed at increasing capacity and embedding reform by means of the waiting list action plan

transgender healthcare to adults in Ireland and that is the self-appointed national gender service based in St. Columcille's Hospital in Loughlinstown. It has wait lists over ten years long and sees fewer than 160 people a year. The NGS and its model of care were … Catalonia, which has an informed consent model in primary care that has been successfully in use since 2012, with a 36-day waiting list and 71% of adults receiving HRT on the first appointment, compared with the decade-long waiting list trans people face in Ireland

health and I compliment the mental health teams. The CAMHS teams there have turned around the complete waiting list and are now operating much better. I also visited University Hospital Limerick and met with the regional executive officer, Sandra Broderick, and senior management. I visited

people sitting in congestion on trains and in cars, while too many are also on waiting lists. We really need ambition now to ensure we increase that capacity. Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise has a proven track record in emergency care, but it is at the expense of elective

seeing a huge surge of presentations. I could talk about waiting list initiatives and that but that will not help the Deputy out at the moment. Under the 2025 plan, Naas General Hospital has completed works, including an 11-bed acute medical assessment unit and an emergency department

each other. I meet those parents all of the time. I know the hurt, pain, stress and anxiety they go through because the waiting list for the CDNT for Blakestown is 72 months. They get the assessments but where are the supports they require? They are virtually … case, why is it not unacceptable for children with different abilities and specific needs? We need to stop the excuses and end the waiting lists. Those children need that support and they need

unit nearby, is to make the decision long term. We need ambition to have a model 3 or model 4 hospital in the mid-west. Anything else will continue this discrimination and I will not be part of another generation of politicians who stand up in this House … weekend about cases in Limerick. Despite the new 96-bed block, the numbers there are 110 on trolleys and 31,000 on waiting lists. We have a worrying situation where consultants, because of the working conditions, are leaving. I urge the Minister of State to give the Christmas

graduates, we are working to expand opportunities for Irish students, particularly given the demands for oral healthcare and the need to reduce waiting lists in the south west of the country. My Department is actively engaging with UCC and the Department of Health on a proposal to establish … exposure in primary care settings which enhances readiness to enter practice when they graduate. In parallel, UCC is refurbishing its dental school and hospital, co-funded by the Department of Health and UCC, to increase capacity for future growth. My officials are actively engaged in this process

Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total number of people on ophthalmology waiting lists in all hospitals offering ophthalmology services by length of time on such wait lists, and the average wait time someone can be expected to be seen in each of those hospitals

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the current waiting list for chronic pain services in each hospital, the number of patients waiting more than 12 months and more than 18 months, the number of patients aged over 65 years within those lists

Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the current waiting list for chronic pain services at Beaumont Hospital; the number of patients waiting more than four months; the number of patients aged over 65 years within those lists; and if she will make a statement

Minister for Health the number of patients currently attending the podiatry clinic at Merlin Park outpatients clinic at Merlin Park Hospital, Galway city; if a waiting list exists to access the services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [71556/25

Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists to access dermatological services in Monaghan Hospital in each of the years 2019 to date, by length of time waiting, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter

Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Mater Hospital; and the average waiting time to see the consultants for first appointments. [71765/25

Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Health the number of people on waiting lists to access dermatological services in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda in each of the years 2019 to date, by length of time waiting, in tabular form; and if she will make

Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time for adults special care needs GA waiting list for routine dental care in each hospital, in tabular form. [67394/25

Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health the average waiting time for children GA waiting list for routine dental care in each hospital, in tabular form. [67395/25

asked the Minister for Health the current waiting times for first-time chronic pain appointments in each hospital group; the number of people aged over 65 on each waiting list; and the measures being introduced to reduce these waiting times. [68701/25

current wait time for primary care psychology in Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore is in excess of two years; that the head of primary care services in the Midlands Louth Meath CHO has attributed these waiting times to ‘capacity … challenges due to no additional primary care psychology and psychology administrative support’, and that ‘new and additional posts would assist the wait times and waiting lists; if and when she intends to provide these additional posts; and, if not, how she intends to address the wait times