Over 12,800 people are on waiting lists for outpatient and inpatient appointments at University Hospital Kerry.
That’s according to figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund for September.
12,835 people were waiting on outpatient and inpatient appointments at University Hospital Kerry, as of the end of September.
There are also another 2,821 people on the planned procedure lists there – these are patients who have had treatment but require additional treatment at UHK at a future date.
These figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund from the end of September show there were more than 12,400 (12,430) people awaiting outpatients’ appointments at UHK.
More than 11,200 (11,282) of these are adults, while a further 1,148 are children.
There are 1,180 people awaiting inpatients’ appointments at UHK, including for endoscopies, as of the end of September.