Lisa Chambers (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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384. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for surgical procedures in the CHO 2 area by number for each of counties Mayo, Galway and Roscommon; the length of time persons have been on the waiting list in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31818/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Improving waiting times for hospital procedures is a key commitment in the Programme for Government and in 2018 €50 million was allocated to the NTPF to provide treatment for patients. The Inpatient/Day Case Action Plan outlines the combined impact of HSE and NTPF activity in 2018 to reduce the number of patients waiting for treatment.

In 2018 the NTPF will outsource 22,000 inpatient day cases, while the HSE will deliver 1.14 million hospital operations or procedures This will mean that by the end of 2018 we will expect to see a significant reduction in the number waiting for a procedure.

The attached document provides a breakdown of the active inpatient/daycase waiting list for Saolta Hospital Group as at the end of June 2018. It also shows a reduction in the numbers waiting for an inpatient/daycase procedure of more than 10% year on year (22,886 end of June 2018 versus 25,456 for June 2017).