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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 January 2019

Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Ceisteanna (579)

Fiona O'Loughlin

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579. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Minister for Health the number of children on a waiting list for children's ophthalmology inpatient services in County Kildare in each of the years from 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and the number of children waiting three, six, nine, 12 and in excess of 12 months, respectively, in tabular form. [54257/18]

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Improving access to hospital treatment is a key priority for Government.

Waiting list figures for December 2018, published last week by the NTPF show that considerable improvements have been made to the number of patients waiting for an Inpatient or Day case procedure which have fallen to 70,204 from the peak of 86,100 in July 2017. This represents a reduction of over 18% in the overall number of patients waiting for a procedure. Furthermore, the number of patients waiting over 9 months has almost halved since July 2017 from 28,100 to 14,900.

My Department is working closely with the NTPF and the HSE to finalise a Scheduled Care Access Plan for inpatients/daycase and outpatients for 2019. In this regard, the NTPF and HSE will continue to work closely with Hospital Groups, inviting proposals to improve access for patients waiting for hospital procedures.

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following document.

Total Number of Children Waiting for an Ophthalmology Procedure in Co. Kildare by Year by Wait Time Band 2011-2019

Sum of Total

Wait Time Bands

Year

  0-3 Months

  3-6 Months

  6-9 Months

  9-12 Months

12 Months +

Grand Total

2011

8

12

4

24

2012

18

5

23

2013

15

5

20

2014

18

13

4

1

36

2015

15

12

4

7

6

44

2016

12

9

10

7

11

49

2017

23

9

8

3

9

52

2018

10

14

3

7

3

37

2019

11

11

7

7

3

39

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