25 Nov 2024

Patients increasingly not making wait lists - GPs

From Checkpoint, 5:30 pm on 25 November 2024

The Labour Party is blaming the Government's new wait time targets for so many patients being unable to get onto a waiting list for hospital treatment. It follows GPs saying patients who desperately need hospital treatment are increasingly not even making it onto waiting lists. But some patients there's nothing new about this kind of rationing, Ruth Hill reports.