Written answers
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Department of Health
Hospital Waiting Lists Data
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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727. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3420/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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728. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3421/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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729. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3422/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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730. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3423/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3424/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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732. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3425/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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733. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3426/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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734. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3427/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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735. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Dublin Midlands hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3428/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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736. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3429/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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737. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3430/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3431/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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739. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3432/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the South/South West hospital group for waiting periods (details supplied). [3433/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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741. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3434/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the South/South West hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3435/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3436/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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744. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3437/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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745. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3438/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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746. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3439/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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747. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3440/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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748. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3441/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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749. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Saolta hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3442/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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750. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3443/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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751. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3444/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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752. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3445/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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753. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3446/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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754. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3447/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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755. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3448/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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756. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the University of Limerick hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3449/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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757. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3450/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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758. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3451/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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759. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3452/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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760. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3453/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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761. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the RCSI hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3454/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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769. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a MRI scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3508/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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770. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a CT scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3509/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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771. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for a bone scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3510/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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772. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an angiogram in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3511/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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773. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3512/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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774. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for cholangiopancreatography in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3513/20]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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775. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting as of 29 February 2020 or the nearest available date for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East hospital group for periods (details supplied). [3514/20]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 727 to 761, inclusive, and 769 to 775, inclusive, together.
The HSE advises that a pilot project commenced in 2016 by the HSE Acute Hospitals Division to progress the collection of national radiology waiting list data. The project has been supported by the Radiology Clinical Care Programme and has involved key stakeholders across the system including the National Integrated Medical Imaging System (NIMIS) Team, Hospital Groups, and the support of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) for data collection and data management expertise.
The information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the documents attached, which set out waiting list data for Quarter 4 2019 for CT, MRI and Ultrasound. The HSE advises that, at present, the further diagnostic scans requested by the Deputy (including cholangiopancreatography, electroencephalogram, angiogram, and bone scan), are not yet captured as part of this project.
The information that is currently being collected is presently being tested and validated at hospital, hospital group and national level and as such should not be used/reported without the context of the caveats set out below:
- Data is subject to inclusions and exclusions which are documented in the Data Profile Document. This document is available from Acute Operations and has been circulated to all Hospital Groups.
- Data contains urgent, routine and surveillance/planned activity which is currently not broken down in detail, as such this includes surveillance/planned activity which may not be exceeding planned date.
- Data is still undergoing validation at Hospital and Hospital Group level.
- Data does not take into account local nuances at site level (Site profile developed to support understanding of same).
- The purpose of this aggregate data is to provide a National Level overview of the number ofpatients waiting for modalities of CT, MR and Ultrasound.
- This report is not intended to be used for the active management of hospital diagnosticswaiting list, local reports and mechanisms should continue to be used for the management of diagnostics waiting lists at hospital level.
In Q4 there were a total of 184,293 patients reported on the waiting list from all sites, this represents all outpatients waiting, urgent, semi urgent, routine and planned/surveillance (where diagnostic access is planned at particular time intervals).
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