Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion

Mr. Connor Green:

In the hospital, a child will be put on either an urgent or a routine waiting list; there is nothing in between at the moment. Their cases are listed chronologically. For those who are chronologically at the top of the urgent waiting list, the hospital will tell them where to go. As Professor McCormack outlined, most clinicians, including him and me, will try to prioritise those children on the list whom we feel need the surgery most. That is the way it is at the moment.

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