Gastroenterology 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 Fife is currently 4 weeks while NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is 4 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.
- 1NHS Fife4 weeks · about 4 weeks
- 2NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde4 weeks · about 4 weeks
- 3NHS Dumfries and Gallowayonly 12 patients5 weeks · about 5 weeks
- 4NHS Highlandonly 4 patients8 weeks · about 2 months
- 5NHS Lothianonly 27 patients12 weeks · about 3 months
- 6NHS Taysideonly 10 patients16 weeks · about 4 months
- 7NHS Grampianonly 16 patients20 weeks · about 5 months
- –NHS Ayrshire and ArranNot published
- –NHS BordersNot published
- –NHS Forth ValleyNot published
- –NHS LanarkshireNot 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.