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Geriatric Medicine waiting lists
The national geriatric medicine backlog: how many are waiting, for how long, and which way it is going.
5,086 people are waiting for geriatric medicine (outpatient (first appointment)), 0.7% of the national list. That is +10.9% on a year ago.
24th of 54 by list size43rd of 54 by share waiting over a year16th of 36 by growth in the past year
Outpatient (first appointment)
5,086
2.5% over 12 months · +10.9% yoy
Inpatient & day case
98
4.1% over 12 months · – yoy
Questions, answered
Is this the longest the list has been?
No: peak was 5,296
Tracked since Jan 2018. Peak in May 2026.
See the trend →What are the odds of waiting over a year?
2.5%
of geriatric medicine patients have waited more than 12 months, against 18.0% across all specialties.
See the trend →Total waiting, Ireland
Outpatient (first appointment)Inpatient & day case
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Source: NTPF open data (CC BY 4.0).