Oral 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 Tayside is currently 3 weeks while NHS Lothian is 40 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.
- 1NHS Tayside3 weeks · about 3 weeks
- 2NHS Orkneyonly 11 patients5 weeks · about 5 weeks
- 3NHS Western Islesonly 8 patients6 weeks · about 6 weeks
- 4NHS Bordersonly 11 patients9 weeks · about 2 months
- 5NHS Highland14 weeks · about 3 months
- 6NHS Shetlandonly 16 patients20 weeks · about 5 months
- 7NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde23 weeks · about 5 months
- 8NHS Lothian40 weeks · about 9 months
- –NHS Ayrshire and ArranNot published
- –NHS Dumfries and GallowayNot published
- –NHS FifeNot published
- –NHS Forth ValleyNot published
- –NHS GrampianNot published
- –NHS LanarkshireNot 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.