More than 100,000 children are now waiting for essential hospital care, it emerged today. New figures on national waiting lists show 630,270 adults and children need an outpatient appointment. With more than 100,000 children waiting for hospital treatment, our health service is failing our youngest patients during these essential, formative years by making them wait for essential treatment and care. This is solvable by filling the one in five permanent hospital consultant posts that are currently unfilled and appointing significant additional consultants. We have a chronic recruitment and retention crisis with 1 in 5 permanent hospital consultant posts not filled as needed.

Source: Irish Independent June 11, 2021 18:11 UTC