Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 July 2021
2475. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients that have been removed from outpatient lists in 2021 as a result of a validation exercise and not as a result of having an appointment with a consultant for each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form. [37908/21]
View answerPeriodic validation forms an essential part of best practice in relation to the management of hospital waiting lists.
Validation is a process whereby hospital administration contacts patients on waiting lists at pre-planned intervals to ensure that patients are ready, willing, suitable and available to attend a hospital appointment or if they wish to be removed.
For a number of years validation was conducted at individual hospital level in Ireland but in 2018, the Minister for Health approved the establishment of the National Centralised Validation Unit (NCVU) within the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). The establishment of a centralised function has facilitated the introduction of a standardised approach to validation of waiting lists across all hospitals and across Inpatient Day Case and Outpatient waiting lists.
The NCVU has advised that the validation programme was impacted due to the ongoing IT issues triggered by the recent HSE cyber- attack. The NCVU is working closely with all hospitals to resume and/or continue with the validation process as systems are restored across the acute hospital sites.
In relation to the data requested by the Deputy, the NCVU provided the attached document which outlines outpatient validation removal figures by hospital from 1st January to 9 July 2021.
|
Name of Hospital & Group: |
No. of patients removed due to validation exercise from 01/01/2021 - 09/07/2021 |
|
IEHG |
|
|
Mater Misericordiae Hospital |
|
|
St Vincent's Hospital |
|
|
Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar |
74 |
|
St Luke's General Hospital Kilkenny |
99 |
|
Wexford General Hospital |
|
|
Our Lady's Hospital Navan |
418 |
|
St Columcille's Hospital |
456 |
|
St Michael's Hospital |
342 |
|
Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital |
121 |
|
Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital |
719 |
|
Total: |
2229 |
|
RCSI |
|
|
Beaumont Hospital |
0 |
|
Connolly Hospital |
0 |
|
Our Lady's of Lourdes Drogheda |
0 |
|
Louth County Hospital |
0 |
|
Cavan & Monaghan Hospitals |
0 |
|
The Rotunda Maternity Hospital |
53 |
|
Total: |
53 |
|
DMHG |
|
|
St James Hospital |
1377 |
|
Tallaght Hospital (AMNCH) |
2067 |
|
Midland Regional Tullamore Hospital |
1409 |
|
Naas General Hospital |
643 |
|
Midland Regional Portlaoise Hospital |
761 |
|
Total: |
6257 |
|
ULHG |
|
|
University Hospital Limerick |
2703 |
|
Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Ennis |
151 |
|
Nenagh Hospital |
110 |
|
Croom Hospital |
433 |
|
St John's Hospital |
88 |
|
Total: |
3485 |
|
SSWHG |
|
|
Cork University Hospital |
1469 |
|
University Hospital Waterford |
1212 |
|
University Hospital Kerry |
889 |
|
Mercy University Hospital |
316 |
|
South Tipperary General Hospital |
0 |
|
South Infirmary Victoria Hospital |
813 |
|
Bantry General Hospital |
45 |
|
Mallow General Hospital |
0 |
|
Total: |
4744 |
|
Saolta Hospital Group |
|
|
University Hospital Galway |
3919 |
|
Sligo University Hospital |
1229 |
|
Letterkenny University Hospital/ |
705 |
|
Mayo University Hospital |
44 |
|
Portiuncula Hospital |
404 |
|
Roscommon University Hospital |
663 |
|
Total: |
6964 |
|
Children's Hospital Group |
|
|
Crumlin Children's Hospital |
247 |
|
Temple Street Children's Hospital |
439 |
|
Tallaght Children's Hospital |
462 |
|
Total: |
1148 |
|
Grand Total: |
24880 |
