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Mon 11 Nov 2009Patients waiting over month for urgent colonoscopy
PATIENTS IN urgent need of colonoscopies to determine if they have bowel cancer are still waiting longer than the one-month target waiting time for this diagnostic test at several hospitals.
An audit conducted by the Health Service Executive in mid-October found 297 patients were waiting longer than one month for an urgent colonoscopy at hospitals across the State. This was worse than in June when a similar audit found 208 patients were waiting longer than a month for an urgent colonoscopy.
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