The Irish Hospital Consultants Association has called for Government and the HSE to expedite the publication of plans to tackle the escalating acute hospital waiting lists. 

Is this a result of the pandemic, or has the problem been there long before?

Secretary General of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, Martin Varley, joined Kieran on the Hard Shoulder...

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