ScotWaits

Gynaecology 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 Shetland is currently 9 weeks while NHS Grampian is 30 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.

  1. 1NHS Orkneyonly 10 patients3 weeks · about 3 weeks
  2. 2NHS Western Islesonly 25 patients3 weeks · about 3 weeks
  3. 3NHS Shetland9 weeks · about 2 months
  4. 4NHS Borders10 weeks · about 2 months
  5. 5NHS Fife13 weeks · about 3 months
  6. 6NHS Dumfries and Galloway14 weeks · about 3 months
  7. 7NHS Lothian17 weeks · about 4 months
  8. 8NHS Highland18 weeks · about 4 months
  9. 9NHS Forth Valley19 weeks · about 4 months
  10. 10NHS Tayside22 weeks · about 5 months
  11. 11NHS Lanarkshire23 weeks · about 5 months
  12. 12NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde25 weeks · about 6 months
  13. 13NHS Ayrshire and Arran26 weeks · about 6 months
  14. 14NHS Grampian30 weeks · about 7 months

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.