HSE public waiting times

Tree

Any idea if the glorious HSE (*growl*) publish waiting times for consultants apointments? (preferably by discipline)

RobFowl

Tree wrote: »

Any idea if the glorious HSE (*growl*) publish waiting times for consultants apointments? (preferably by discipline)

Beaumont used to but in this brave new world they have stopped.....

lonestargirl

Do hospitals operate multiple lists based on urgency? I know in radiotherapy patients are classed into catergory 1,2,3 and priority is based on that. Also, I have a friend who went from GP -> ultrasound -> consultant -> surgery in less than 10 days when he found a lump on his testicle. I can't imagine getting a public urology appointment that quickly for a benign condition.

Vorsprung

They do publish all (?most) of this on their HealthStat site.

RobFowl

Vorsprung wrote: »

They do publish all (?most) of this on their HealthStat site.

I'm open to correction but I believe that is the waiting time from a decision to carry out a procedure until the time of the procedure. It doesn't measure the time from referral until seen by the consultant in the first place.

Vorsprung

RobFowl wrote: »

I'm open to correction but I believe that is the waiting time from a decision to carry out a procedure until the time of the procedure. It doesn't measure the time from referral until seen by the consultant in the first place.

I have a feeling it does. Admittedly, I haven't looked up every hospital!

EDIT - Just had a look at HealthStat there for one hospital, and what it does show is the "average wait time for new routine appointment for OPD Consultant led clinics". I haven't looked through each hospital as I said, but there's obviously a push to get this information out into the open.

Had a quick look at Kerry General Hospital - the ENT wait time down there is 600 days. Slightly depressing.

Tree

Cheers, that's roughly what i'm after. I assume rhematology would fall under the "general medicine" category, rather than orthopaedics.

Vorsprung

It may or may not to be honest, depends whether they class it as such in that place. I guess that's a potential source of bias in the figures. Your best bet is to ring the Rheum Dept in the hospital in question.