PROGRESS IN WAIT ON GALWAY CHILDREN’S ORTHODONTIC LIST

Date Published: 28-Mar-2013

Galway children who are referred for orthodontic assessment now have a waiting time of 10 months, a significant improvement on recent years.

The average wait was provided to Cllr Mary Hoade at this week’s meeting of the HSE Regional Health Forum West.

CEO of the Galway Roscommon Hospital Group Bill Maher said that the longest waiting time faced by a patient on the orthodontic list at present is 25 months.

However, patients joining the list now have an average wait of 10 months with exceptions made for any child in critical need of treatment.

Cllr Hoade told Galway Bay fm news that she’s satisfied significant progress has been made.