( ed by consultant. However Galway c...)Cancellations of Operations touch 22,000,Health

ed by consultant".

However Galway city's two main hospitals, University College Hospital and Merlin Park Regional Hospital, said that cases cancelled by patients or cases where patients did not keep their appointment were not included in its total figure of 3,334 operations cancelled last year. It added that cancelled procedures are relisted for the following day and this can result in the same procedure being deferred a number of times.

The Health Service Executive said that it had recognized that the deferral of operations can cause inconvenience for patients and that it was endeavoring to keep them to a minimum and to have postponed operations rescheduled as soon as possible.

It added that the figures for total operations cancelled in 2005 represented less than 3.4 per cent of the total number of operations performed during the year.

According to Janette Byrne of Patients Together the problems in the health service, whether it was patients having their operations cancelled or lying on trolleys in A&E, all seemed to come back to the need for extra hospital beds and the sooner the HSE and the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, realised this, the better.
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