Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 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 Forth Valley is currently 4 weeks while NHS Tayside is 38 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.
- 1NHS Forth Valley4 weeks · about 4 weeks
- 2NHS Fife7 weeks · about 7 weeks
- 3NHS Lothian12 weeks · about 3 months
- 4NHS Ayrshire and Arran14 weeks · about 3 months
- 5NHS Orkneyonly 2 patients14 weeks · about 3 months
- 6NHS Western Islesonly 29 patients15 weeks · about 3 months
- 7NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde16 weeks · about 4 months
- 8NHS Dumfries and Galloway18 weeks · about 4 months
- 9NHS Shetland23 weeks · about 5 months
- 10NHS Grampian28 weeks · about 6 months
- 11NHS Lanarkshire29 weeks · about 7 months
- 12NHS Tayside38 weeks · about 9 months
- –NHS BordersNot published
- –NHS HighlandNot 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.