Pain Management 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 2 weeks while NHS Lanarkshire is 8 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.
- 1NHS Dumfries and Gallowayonly 1 patients2 weeks · about 2 weeks
- 2NHS Shetland2 weeks · about 2 weeks
- 3NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde3 weeks · about 3 weeks
- 4NHS Grampian8 weeks · about 2 months
- 5NHS Lanarkshire8 weeks · about 2 months
- 6NHS Orkneyonly 19 patients14 weeks · about 3 months
- 7NHS Forth Valleyonly 24 patients26 weeks · about 6 months
- 8NHS Taysideonly 1 patients38 weeks · about 9 months
- –NHS Ayrshire and ArranNot published
- –NHS BordersNot published
- –NHS FifeNot published
- –NHS HighlandNot published
- –NHS LothianNot 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.