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NI hospital waiting times increase, figures show
The Department of Health (DH) has published the latest hospital waiting time statistics showing a rise in hospital waiting times in Northern Ireland.
The data indicates a rise in the numbers of people waiting for more than nine weeks for outpatient appointments - or more than 13 weeks for inpatient appointments, across Northern Ireland.
According to the DH, over two thirds of patients were waiting more than nine weeks for a first consultant-led outpatient appointment. It highlighted that 167,250 patients have been waiting more than nine weeks and 39,557 have been waiting more than 52 weeks.
The target for outpatient waiting times is that at least 50 per cent of patients should wait no longer than nine weeks by March 2017.
A total of 39,772 patients were waiting more than 13 weeks for either inpatient or day case admission, a rise from June and last September. The report also identified that 10 per cent of inpatients were waiting more than 52 weeks for either an inpatient or day case admission, the report added.
Meanwhile 102,061 patients are waiting for a diagnostic service and just under two fifths of them have been waiting longer than nine weeks.
In total, 9,675 patients were waiting more than 26 weeks for a diagnostic test.
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