Ear, Nose & Throat 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 Tayside is currently 11 weeks while NHS Orkney is 32 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.
- 1NHS Tayside11 weeks · about 3 months
- 2NHS Dumfries and Galloway13 weeks · about 3 months
- 3NHS Highland15 weeks · about 3 months
- 4NHS Shetland16 weeks · about 4 months
- 5NHS Borders17 weeks · about 4 months
- 6NHS Lothian17 weeks · about 4 months
- 7NHS Lanarkshire19 weeks · about 4 months
- 8NHS Ayrshire and Arran21 weeks · about 5 months
- 9NHS Forth Valley21 weeks · about 5 months
- 10NHS Fife24 weeks · about 6 months
- 11NHS Grampian27 weeks · about 6 months
- 12NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde32 weeks · about 7 months
- 13NHS Orkney32 weeks · about 7 months
- –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.