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Tackling Hospital Waiting Lists

22 July, 2021


This document outlines a €914m package of proposals to boost spending on the health service in order to drastically shorten waiting lists and ensure the system is prepared to meet the demands of catch-up care post-Covid. Sinn Féin’s plan includes policies to increase the number of beds, to fill consultant posts and to hire additional hospital staff among other detailed, fully-costed and deliverable proposals to end the scandal of waiting lists and ensure patients get the timely healthcare they need.