Over 600,000 people waiting for first outpatient consultation

File photo Image: Shutterstock/Schira File photo Image: Shutterstock/Schira MORE THAN 600,000 people in Ireland are waiting for a first hospital outpatient consultation.

There were just over 553,000 patients on the list at the start of the year, with the backlog created by the Covid-19 pandemic resulting in the number surpassing 600,000 for the first time. These are patients who have already had treatment and require further treatment at a future date – for example, a patient who has had a scope may require surveillance monitoring scopes in the future – and have been assigned indicative dates for treatment.

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