Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 June 2019
166. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the number of children on ENT surgery waiting lists nationally, by hospital, in each of the years from 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24387/19]
View answerBudget 2019 announced that the Government had further increased investment in tackling waiting lists, with funding to the NTPF increasing from €55 million in 2018 to €75 million in 2019. The joint Department of Health, HSE, and NTPF Scheduled Care Access Plan 2019 was published on 11th March.
Under the Plan the HSE, in line with the National Service Plan, will deliver 1.155 million elective inpatient and day case discharges at a value of €1.4 billion in 2019. The Scheduled Care Access Plan includes:
- detailed plans from the NTPF to fund 25,000 IPDC treatments; 5,000 Gastro Intestinal Scopes and 40,000 outpatient first appointments.
- Projections by year end to reduce the overall number of patients on the waiting list (excluding GI scopes) from just over 70,200 in Dec 2018 to under 60,000;
- Within this overall reduction the number of patients waiting longer than 3 months will reduce from 40,200 at the end of 2018 to 31,000;
- It is also projected that for ten identified high volume procedures, including tonsillectomies, all clinically suitable patients waiting more than 6 months will be offered treatment in 2019. These 10 procedures account for over a third of the active inpatient day case waiting list and represent 60% of NTPF planned activity in 2019.
In relation to the particular matter raised by the Deputy, the table provides the Inpatient and Day Case waiting list figures for children awaiting ENT surgery by hospital for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and to the end of April 2019.
|
Hospital |
30/12/2016 |
29/12/2017 |
20/12/2018 |
25/04/2019 |
|
Beaumont Hospital |
167 |
88 |
70 |
84 |
|
Cavan General Hospital |
75 |
54 |
109 |
76 |
|
CHI at Crumlin |
272 |
192 |
166 |
|
|
CHI at Temple St |
165 |
89 |
74 |
|
|
Galway University Hospitals |
218 |
197 |
128 |
111 |
|
Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore |
396 |
217 |
104 |
45 |
|
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda |
88 |
43 |
9 |
20 |
|
Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital |
67 |
37 |
35 |
20 |
|
Sligo University Hospital |
425 |
385 |
218 |
177 |
|
South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital |
95 |
132 |
52 |
57 |
|
Tallaght University Hospital |
1 |
|||
|
University Hospital Kerry |
3 |
3 |
9 |
5 |
|
University Hospital Limerick |
222 |
213 |
87 |
134 |
|
University Hospital Waterford |
261 |
200 |
108 |
118 |
|
Grand Total |
2454 |
1851 |
1169 |
847 |
