MORE THAN A YEAR DELAY IN OUTPATIENT APPOINTMENTS AT UHG

Date Published: 06-Jan-2009

Patients have to wait an average of 14 months for an outpatient appointment at University Hospital Galway.The information is revealed in the HSE's "HealthStat" programme, which compares performance in different hospitals.The HealthStat figures,for the end of October, are currently being drawn up on a pilot basis.According to today's Irish Times, UHG also had one of the longest average waiting times of 410 days for an outpatient appointment.The Mid West Regional Hospital in Limerick had a wait of up to 480 days.