Paediatric 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 8 weeks while NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is 20 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.
- 1NHS Shetlandonly 1 patients2 weeks · about 2 weeks
- 2NHS Forth Valley8 weeks · about 2 months
- 3NHS Grampian8 weeks · about 2 months
- 4NHS Fife9 weeks · about 2 months
- 5NHS Highlandonly 15 patients10 weeks · about 2 months
- 6NHS Bordersonly 16 patients11 weeks · about 3 months
- 7NHS Lanarkshire12 weeks · about 3 months
- 8NHS Lothian12 weeks · about 3 months
- 9NHS Tayside16 weeks · about 4 months
- 10NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde20 weeks · about 5 months
- –NHS Ayrshire and ArranNot published
- –NHS Dumfries and GallowayNot published
- –NHS OrkneyNot 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.