Ageing population‘a time bomb’ for surgical services

Our ageing population is a “demographic time bomb” that will have serious repercussions for surgical services, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Kenneth Mealy, has warned.

Mr Mealy, who is lead of the national clinical programme in surgery and clinical director of the National Office of Clinical Audit, also called for the variance in surgical services across the country to be addressed