Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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749. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital; the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist when a referring GP submits an urgent request at the same hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51430/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Waiting list information by hospital and by specialty is published monthly and is available on the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) website at: www.ntpf.ie/home/nwld.htm.

The NTPF only collects data on patients currently on the waiting list. The time to treatment of patients who have already received their care is not collected. As a result, the health system does not have the data necessary to calculate true average wait times.