The map

The same country, one specialty at a time.

Change the specialty and watch where the ink goes. If one hospital were the problem it would stay dark while the rest stayed pale. It does not: the picture rearranges, because the spread belongs to the list rather than to a place.

NTPF outpatient waiting list, hospital x specialty. Figures from 2026-08-27, published 2026-09-11, extracted 2026-09-25. Northern Ireland from the Department of Health, by HSC Trust: figures at 2026-06-30, published 2026-09-03. Every figure on this page traces to a published row.

Age group
Where hospitals disagree most:

Share already waiting over a year

0%100%

lowest and highest of the 15 lists with at least 100 people on them

hospitals publishing
20
people waiting
27,450
already over a year
7,790 (28.4%)
Northern Ireland, Trusts publishing
5
people waiting
26,855
already over 52 weeks
16,508 (61.5%)
more ink, longer waitedbigger, more waitingRepublic hospitalNorthern Ireland Trust

One letter, two readings, the whole country.

The invented vertigo referral on the homepage, read by two readers who named different specialties.

The same 15 hospitals, drawn twice: one reading on the left, the other on the right. Darker is more of that list waiting over a year.

Share already waiting over a year0%100%the same scale on both maps
Neurology23.4% on average
Beaumont Hospital: 39.2% of the list waiting over a yearCavan General Hospital: 18.2% of the list waiting over a yearCork University Hospital: 0% of the list waiting over a yearGalway University Hospitals: 39.9% of the list waiting over a yearLetterkenny University Hospital: 51% of the list waiting over a yearMater Misericordiae University Hospital: 32.7% of the list waiting over a yearMayo University Hospital: 0% of the list waiting over a yearOur Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda: 31.7% of the list waiting over a yearSligo University Hospital: 37.8% of the list waiting over a yearSt. James's Hospital: 7% of the list waiting over a yearSt. Vincent's University Hospital: 36.9% of the list waiting over a yearTallaght University Hospital: 12% of the list waiting over a yearUniversity Hospital Kerry: 43.3% of the list waiting over a yearUniversity Hospital Limerick: 0% of the list waiting over a yearUniversity Hospital Waterford: 1.8% of the list waiting over a yearLetterkenny 51%Limerick 0%
Ear, nose and throat8.7% on average
Beaumont Hospital: 9.4% of the list waiting over a yearCavan General Hospital: 1.4% of the list waiting over a yearCork University Hospital: 1.5% of the list waiting over a yearGalway University Hospitals: 1.6% of the list waiting over a yearLetterkenny University Hospital: 0.2% of the list waiting over a yearMater Misericordiae University Hospital: 24.4% of the list waiting over a yearMayo University Hospital: 20.7% of the list waiting over a yearOur Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda: 7.7% of the list waiting over a yearSligo University Hospital: 0.1% of the list waiting over a yearSt. James's Hospital: 26.8% of the list waiting over a yearSt. Vincent's University Hospital: 20.9% of the list waiting over a yearTallaght University Hospital: 0.5% of the list waiting over a yearUniversity Hospital Kerry: 7.3% of the list waiting over a yearUniversity Hospital Limerick: 3.2% of the list waiting over a yearUniversity Hospital Waterford: 5.5% of the list waiting over a yearSt. James's 26.8%Sligo 0.1%

Same hospitals. Same scale. Only the specialty changed.Adults, hospitals publishing both lists, NTPF figures published 2026-09-11. A comparison between two specialties, not between hospitals: no hospital here is better or worse than another, and nothing on this page is a recommendation. Hospitals that sit on top of each other at this size are nudged apart so each can be seen; position is approximate, the figures are not.

Figures for the Republic of Ireland © National Treatment Purchase Fund, from its published waiting-list reports. UK figures contain public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Hospital positions © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. No publisher is associated with or endorses Vouch.

This is the evidence behind the referral screen, not a substitute for it. Which service is right for a patient depends on things this file does not hold, and Vouch does not decide them. Read a referral instead.

UN SDG 3, target 3.8: “access to quality essential health-care services”. Putting that published evidence beside the referral as it is written is what Vouch does. Patient outcomes are a pilot’s to measure, and Vouch claims none until then.