Galway Bay fm newsroom - Galway University Hospitals - comprising UHG and Merlin Park - has the second longest waiting list for outpatient appointments in the country.
That's according to the latest figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund which show over 45-thousand people were waiting for an appointment in July between the two hospitals.
It's the second longest waiting list for outpatient appointments in the country - coming in just behind Children's Health Ireland where 46-thousand children await an appointment.
Of the patients in Galway, over 10-thousand have been waiting for an outpatient appointment for more than 18 months - while a further 7-thousand have been on the list between 12 and 18 months.
27-thousand have been seeking outpatient appointments at Galway University Hospitals for up to a year.
The number of patients on the waiting list in Galway has increased by nearly 3-thousand since 2019.
Meanwhile at Portiuncla Hospital in Ballinasloe, 4,300 people are on the waiting list - with 434 patients waiting for over 18 months.
Nationally, the number waiting for an outpatient appointment jumped by over 17,000 last month - to 601,362.
