Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. John Connaghan:
It is my impression that most of those are treatments. We are at a 16% reduction overall since July 2017 with a 32% reduction in the number of those waiting for the longer periods. The purpose of the NTPF and the HSE strategy in that time period was to target those who were waiting the longest. I do not have the figures here, but my impression is that most of those were treatments rather than removals and that probably stands up because the validation exercises took place after that time.
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