Over 13,800 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 November.
13,838 people were waiting on outpatient and inpatient appointments at University Hospital Kerry, as of the end of November.
There are also another 2,298 people on the planned procedure list 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 November show there were more than 12,100 (12,178) people awaiting outpatients’ appointments at UHK.
Over 11,000 (11,138) of these are adults, while more than 1,000 (1,040) are children.
Meanwhile, over 430 people are on the inpatient day case to come in list (including 227 for GI endoscopy) at the Tralee hospital.
There are 1,660 people awaiting inpatients’ appointments at UHK, including for endoscopies, as of the end of November.
