Neurosurgery 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 5 weeks while NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is 21 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.
- 1NHS Tayside5 weeks · about 5 weeks
- 2NHS Grampian14 weeks · about 3 months
- 3NHS Lothian17 weeks · about 4 months
- 4NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde21 weeks · about 5 months
- –NHS Ayrshire and ArranNot published
- –NHS BordersNot published
- –NHS Dumfries and GallowayNot published
- –NHS FifeNot published
- –NHS Forth ValleyNot published
- –NHS HighlandNot 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.