Four-year wait for over 5,000 Limerick patients

Over 5,600 patients in Limerick are waiting four years or more for an outpatient appointment, according to the latest figures from the HSE.

At the end of February, the Mid-Western Regional Orthopaedic Hospital, Croom had 4,148 patients waiting four years or more.

1,473 patients were waiting at the nearby Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle.

Nationally, 105,632 patients were waiting over a year for a first consultant outpatient appointment.

This represents a small improvement on the figures up to the end of January.

The hospitals with the longest overall outpatient waiting lists were:

- University College Hospital Galway with 41,035 patients
- Waterford Regional with 28,625 patients
- Tallaght Hospital with a total of 26,119 patients
- Limerick Regional with 23,098 patients
- Cork University Hospital with 22,944
- and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin with 22,206 patients on waiting lists.

The HSE West says that it expects to make significant improvements in the outpatient waiting list for services at the Regional Orthopaedic Hospital in Limerick by the end of this month.

It says that all hospitals are validating outpatient waiting lists and historically lists have contained inaccuracies for many reasons.

It says the waiting list at the hospital as of 1 May for an outpatient appointment is 7,477.

The HSE West says that it aims to have the entire list validated by the end of May and have no patient waiting longer than a year by the end of November, for an orthopaedic appointment.

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