Debate contribution: Waiting Lists
Debate contribution by Mr Robin Swann on .
- MLA
- Mr Robin Swann
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 21 May 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Waiting Lists
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4491641
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I thank the Member for that point. My officials recently advised the Health Committee that these are the figures from the work on the original bid that we made. That bid included funding for 6,000 patients waiting over four years for a dermatology outpatient assessment; 4,400 patients waiting for knee and hip replacements and other orthopaedic procedures; 4,200 patients waiting over three years for gynaecology outpatient assessments; 1,100 patients, many of whom are children, waiting over four years for tonsillectomies; 2,800 patients waiting for cataract procedures; and 2,100 patients waiting over three years for a rheumatology outpatient assessment. Twenty thousand patients could have been seen at mega clinics across a number of specialities. That is a snapshot, and many more patients could have been seen for other procedures.
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