New waiting list figures up to the end of January reveal a significant increase in the number of adults and children waiting for treatment, with 33 of 41 acute hospitals reporting rising lists.
When all waiting lists are counted, there are now 76,666 patients waiting for inpatient, day case or a gastrointestinal procedure, according to the new data from the National Treatment Purchase Fund.
This represents an increase of more than 21,500 patients comparing the end of January this year to the same time last year.
Of the overall figure, 63,740 people were waiting for inpatient, or day case treatment, an increase of 16,628 patients, compared with January 2014.
Galway University Hospital has the biggest waiting list in the country with 8,347 adults and children waiting for inpatient or day case treatment. The waiting list there has grown by over 3,000 in the past year.
Just eight hospitals report a reduction in waiting lists.
Nationally, the number of patients waiting over a year for treatment has increased from 183 to 6,120 over the past year.
The January figures are also the first to reflect cancelled planned procedures during the month to deal with emergency department overcrowding.
Other hospitals with long waiting lists are: Beaumont with 6,121 waiting, Mater 5,593 and St James's with 4,689.
Because of the way waiting list figures are collected, gastrointestinal endoscopy cases are listed separately.
At the end of January, there were 12,926 patients waiting for a gastrointestinal check, up 4,902 over the past year.
There are over 800 patients waiting over nine months for a gastrointestinal endoscopy check.
When the 12,926 GI list is added to the 63,740 inpatient and day case waiters, the overall national waiting list figure is 76,666 patients.
Separately, 385,781 patients are waiting to be seen at an outpatient clinic for the first time.
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