Patients and families are paying the price. No one chooses cancer, dialysis or a long hospital stay. The fact is that these charges punish people for being sick. Parents visiting sick children, carers and people with disabilities are being hit again and again. Hospitals should not depend on money taken from sick people and their families.
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more than 200,000 people are currently waiting for some form of outpatient appointment in hospitals across Ireland.
The current system is unfair and inconsistent. We need one national policy. The Government should fund a phased end to hospital parking charges.
official figures I have received show that, of this overall group, some patients are waiting more than 709 weeks for an outpatient appointment.
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