Wexford General Hospital — Outpatient Waiting List
7,311, latest August 2026 (+26.5% year on year, from 5,781).
7,311 people were on the outpatient waiting list. 0-6 months accounted for the largest share (5,372, 73%). Next largest was 6-12 months (1,343). The largest year-on-year movement was 12-18 months, 837% higher (534). 1 smaller category had fewer than 20 records at one end of the comparison, where percentage changes move sharply on small numbers.
What these terms mean
- National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF)
- The state body that publishes Irish public hospital waiting list data monthly and separately funds treatment (often in private hospitals) to reduce specific backlogs. Source
- Waiting-time band
- How long a patient has been waiting AS OF the count date, not how long they will wait in total. NTPF publishes four bands: 0-6, 6-12, 12-18 and 18+ months.
- Outpatient waiting list
- Patients waiting for a first appointment with a hospital consultant, following a GP or other referral. This is the queue to be SEEN, not to be admitted. Source
Before you use these figures
- A waiting list is not a scorecard of hospital performance: The number of people waiting reflects how many are being REFERRED at least as much as how well a hospital is treating them. A hospital seeing more patients than ever can still show a rising list if referrals grow faster than capacity; a falling list can follow fewer referrals rather than better care. NTPF itself also actively funds treatment to reduce specific hospitals' backlogs, which can move a figure independently of that hospital's own capacity. Comparing hospitals directly is further complicated because they cover very different population sizes and specialties.
- Hospital location, not patient catchment: This figure is attributed to the county the hospital is physically in, not to where its patients live. Every public hospital treats some patients referred from outside its own county, so a county's figure should be read as "waiting at a hospital located here", not "how long people from this county wait".
- Adult and child patients are combined: NTPF publishes separate Adult and Child waiting lists for most hospitals; the two are summed here into one hospital total per band, since both are on the same list and a person can only be on one. A small number of children's cases in 2021-2023, published by NTPF in an unattributed 'Small Volume Hospitals' bucket rather than under a named hospital, are excluded entirely because they cannot honestly be assigned to one hospital or county.
- Bands may differ from NTPF's own published total by a patient or two: In roughly a quarter to a third of the source's own monthly rows, the four waiting-time bands NTPF publishes do not sum to exactly the Total figure NTPF publishes alongside them, always by one or two patients. This reads as a minor timing artefact in how NTPF computes the two figures rather than a double-count. The total shown here is the sum of the four bands, which may therefore differ very slightly from NTPF's own headline total for the same hospital and month.
Cite this figure:
Wexford General Hospital — Outpatient Waiting List 7,311 for Wexford, August 2026 Caveats: A waiting list is not a scorecard of hospital performance; Hospital location, not patient catchment; Adult and child patients are combined; Bands may differ from NTPF's own published total by a patient or two StatsMapped last confirmed this figure unchanged on 18 Sep 2026. Source: National Treatment Purchase Fund https://statsmapped.com/ireland/county/wexford/outpatient-waits-wexford-general-hospital