Cardiology waits across Scotland
Every health board ranked by median wait, shortest first. These count how long people currently on the list have waited so far, for treatment once they have been listed for it.
The gap is wide: NHS Highland is currently 2 weeks while NHS Fife is 19 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.
- 1NHS Highland2 weeks · about 2 weeks
- 2NHS Forth Valleyonly 10 patients3 weeks · about 3 weeks
- 3NHS Ayrshire and Arran4 weeks · about 4 weeks
- 4NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde6 weeks · about 6 weeks
- 5NHS Lanarkshire7 weeks · about 7 weeks
- 6NHS Grampian9 weeks · about 2 months
- 7NHS Dumfries and Gallowayonly 18 patients10 weeks · about 2 months
- 8NHS Tayside10 weeks · about 2 months
- 9NHS Lothian13 weeks · about 3 months
- 10NHS Fife19 weeks · about 4 months
- –NHS BordersNot published
- –NHS OrkneyNot published
- –NHS ShetlandNot published
- –NHS Western IslesNot published
Boards marked “only n patients” rest on fewer than 30 people, which is too few for a meaningful median — a small board near the top of this table is usually a statistical artefact rather than a fast service. Boards with no published figure are listed last.
You can’t simply pick a board. Scotland has no equivalent of England’s Right to Choose. Where you’re referred is a matter for your GP — though it’s worth asking, since smaller boards do sometimes refer patients elsewhere for a specialty rather than running their own list.