Hospital waiting lists will take more than a decade to clear – IHCA

Irish Hospital Consultants Association vice president Professor Gabrielle Colleran. The waiting list reduction plan, launched just two weeks ago, 'has already fallen at the first hurdle'. Picture: ihca.ie

The current levels of Ireland’s medical waiting lists will take more than a decade to clear, according to the body representing hospital consultants.

New waiting list figures for Ireland’s hospitals published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) show a slight increase on February’s numbers, with more than 896,000 people on some sort of public hospital waiting list.