Tonsilectomy waiting list times (Public)

Greengearz

I've been keeping an eye on the data that is available on the NTPF which shows the no. of people on waiting lists in Ireland per month for each hospital but I'm not sure what Tonsil removal would be under as there is no ENT category?

How long was anyone here waiting to

a) get an appointment to see a surgeon

After seeing an ENT, then how long after that?

Wesser

It depends what part of the country, often 2 years to see ent.
The number of people waiting to see ent are published in the ntpf website Under "by speciality".
Are the ntpf still buying procedures? Thought those days were over.

Greengearz

In buying procedures, do you mean that scheme or something where they subsidized the cost of an operation for someone so they could go private or something? If we're thinking of the same thing then yeah that stopped a good few years back afaik.

Greengearz

I just check under specialty and there isn;t a specif one for ENT so I'm assuming general surgery

Wesser

There is one for ent, I can see it ! It's under ' by speciality'!

Greengearz

Oh! sorry I dont know how I missed that, I was reading another thing.

It's definitely up at one of the highest in terms of waiting times,