Health minister asks executive for long-term commitment to ring fence funding to tackle waiting lists More than half (56.6 per cent) of patients were waiting more than a year for a first consultant-led outpatient appointment - compared with 38 per cent the same time last year 27 May, 2021 15:49
Minister Robin Swann warned the length of Northern Ireland s hospital waiting lists is undermining `the principle of being free and available at the point of need on which the health service was built. Picture by Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA Wire
HEALTH minister Robin Swann has asked executive colleagues for a long-term commitment to ring-fence the money needed to tackle waiting lists as new figures reveal a worsening crisis.