Three-month wait for op for orthopaedic patients
ORTHOPAEDIC patients are waiting up to three months for operations, statistics released by Health & Social Care show.
They show also that theatre use dropped below the new target rate four times in 2017.
HSC yesterday released a summary of its 34 key performance indicators, agreed as part of its new contract with the Medical Specialist Group.
It also provided more detail on waiting times for procedures after little information was forthcoming from the secondary health care provider in its annual review and subsequent enquiries.
Current waiting times for orthopaedic outpatient appointments is 61 days, while for inpatients it is 94 days.
Inpatient waiting lists for some procedures had soared to eight months in May, but stood at five months in October.
Health said while the wait for operations was more than eight weeks, the former contractual waiting time, it was under UK targets.
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