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Mon 12 Dec 2007Outpatients waiting up to eight years to see consultantsPatients can be waiting up to eight years to see a consultant in a hospital outpatient clinic, new figures show. The figures obtained by The Irish Timesshow some 48 patients who were waiting to be seen in the outpatient department of Mayo General Hospital earlier this year had been on the waiting list since 1999.Patients are also waiting to be seen in the outpatients department of Galway's University College Hospital/Merlin Park Regional Hospital since the year 2000.