Statistics released to the party under freedom of information legislation show the longest recorded wait for inpatient or day case plastic surgery treatment at 2,952 days on June 30 of this year.

Another wait for ear, nose and throat treatment has stretched to 2,495 – almost seven years.

There was also a wait of more than six years for general surgery and another of more than five-and-a-half years in paediatrics.

The figures illustrate the longest waits for a single inpatient or day case procedure, which can be moved or changed for a variety of reasons.

The median wait for inpatient treatment of all kinds, according to the latest figures from the three months to June of this year, was 63 days.

But as of June 30, 1,440 people had been waiting three years or more for treatment.

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