Waiting List Performance Improvements
Our public hospitals provide a mix of both planned and emergency healthcare services at more than 50 hospitals in communities across the country.
While our hospital teams provide over 3.4 million outpatient consultations, emergency care to over 1.6 million people, day case care to over one million people and over 600,000 people are inpatients in hospital each year, waiting lists and waiting times exist in many specialties. We acknowledge that patients are waiting too long to be seen for outpatient consultations and for procedures. Our hospitals and national teams are working to respond to and address the issue of access to care.
The 2023 Waiting List Action Plan, developed by the Department of Health and the HSE, is our programme of work to deliver sustained reductions in waiting lists numbers and waiting times. €443 million has been allocated in 2023 to the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund for extra public and private activity and enable longer term reform.
Significant progress has been made over the past year to reduce the number of people who are waiting longer than the maximum wait time targets set out in the National Service Plan.
Please see below for the monthly progress reports up until December 2023.
The report was discontinued as more detailed activity and waiting list reports were developed and published:
Snapshot of health service activity and key metrics
Waiting List Improvement Update - December 2023
Waiting List Improvement Update - November 2023
Waiting List Improvement Update - October 2023
Waiting List Improvement Update - September 2023
Waiting List Improvement Update - August 2023
Waiting List Improvement Update - July 2023
Waiting List Improvement Update - June 2023
Waiting List Improvement Update Reports Archive