Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 March 2023
1368. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on diagnostic waiting lists at the end of each quarter of 2021 and 2022 at Naas General Hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13155/23]
View answerThe HSE advises that a pilot project commenced in 2016 by the HSE Acute Hospitals Division to progress the collection of national radiology waiting list data. The project has been supported by the Radiology Clinical Care Programme and has involved key stakeholders across the system including the National Integrated Medical Imaging System (NIMIS) Team, Hospital Groups, and the support of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) for data collection and data management expertise.
The NTPF has advised my Department that they are unable to provide information on diagnostic waiting lists by individual hospital as requested by the Deputy.
The attached documents set out information on CT, MRI and Ultrasound diagnostic waiting lists in each hospital group at the end of each quarter in 2021 and 2022. The HSE advises that, at present, further diagnostic scans (including cholangiopancreatography, electroencephalogram, angiogram, and bone scan), are not yet captured as part of the pilot project.
The information that is currently being collected is presently being tested and validated at hospital, hospital group and national level and as such should not be used/reported without the context of the caveats set out below:
- Data is subject to inclusions and exclusions which are documented in the Data Profile Document. This document is available from Acute Operations and has been circulated to all Hospital Groups.
- Data contains urgent, routine and surveillance/planned activity which is currently not broken down in detail, as such this includes surveillance/planned activity which may not be exceeding planned date.
- Data is still undergoing validation at Hospital and Hospital Group level.
- Data does not take into account local nuances at site level (Site profile developed to support understanding of same).
- The purpose of this aggregate data is to provide a National Level overview of the number of patients waiting for modalities of CT, MRI and Ultrasound.
- This report is not intended to be used for the active management of hospital diagnostics waiting list, local reports and mechanisms should continue to be used for the management of diagnostics waiting lists at hospital level.
[< ahref="https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debates/questions/supportingDocumentation/2023-03-21_pq-1368a-21-03-2023_en.pdf ">Diagnostic Waiting List Report Q1 2021</a>]
[< ahref="https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debates/questions/supportingDocumentation/2023-03-21_pq1368b-21-03-2023_en.pdf ">Diagnostic Waiting List Report Q2 2021</a>]
[< ahref="https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debates/questions/supportingDocumentation/2023-03-21_pq1368c-21-03-2023_en.pdf ">Diagnostic Waiting List Report Q3 2021</a>]
[< ahref="https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debates/questions/supportingDocumentation/2023-03-21_pq1368d-21-03-2023_en.pdf ">Diagnostic Waiting List Report Q4 2021</a>]
[< ahref="https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debates/questions/supportingDocumentation/2023-03-21_pq1368e_en.pdf ">Diagnostic Waiting List Report Q1 2022</a>]
[< ahref="https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debates/questions/supportingDocumentation/2023-03-21_pq1368f-21-03-203_en.pdf ">Diagnostic Waiting List Report Q2 2022</a>]
[< ahref="https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debates/questions/supportingDocumentation/2023-03-21_pq1368g-21-03-2023_en.pdf ">Diagnostic Waiting List Report Q3 2022</a>]
[< ahref="https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/debates/questions/supportingDocumentation/2023-03-21_pq1368h-21-03-2023_en.pdf ">Diagnostic Waiting List Report Q4 2022</a>]
