Community Dental Practice 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 Ayrshire and Arran is currently 6 weeks while NHS Lothian is 23 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.
- 1NHS Ayrshire and Arran6 weeks · about 6 weeks
- 2NHS Lanarkshire7 weeks · about 7 weeks
- 3NHS Tayside7 weeks · about 7 weeks
- 4NHS Grampian11 weeks · about 3 months
- 5NHS Highland12 weeks · about 3 months
- 6NHS Dumfries and Galloway14 weeks · about 3 months
- 7NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde18 weeks · about 4 months
- 8NHS Lothian23 weeks · about 5 months
- –NHS BordersNot published
- –NHS FifeNot published
- –NHS Forth ValleyNot 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.