ScotWaits

Trauma & Orthopaedics 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 Western Isles is currently 6 weeks while NHS Grampian is 30 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.

  1. 1NHS Shetlandonly 1 patients6 weeks · about 6 weeks
  2. 2NHS Western Isles6 weeks · about 6 weeks
  3. 3NHS Orkney9 weeks · about 2 months
  4. 4NHS Fife18 weeks · about 4 months
  5. 5NHS Borders19 weeks · about 4 months
  6. 6NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde19 weeks · about 4 months
  7. 7NHS Highland19 weeks · about 4 months
  8. 8NHS Lothian19 weeks · about 4 months
  9. 9NHS Forth Valley20 weeks · about 5 months
  10. 10NHS Lanarkshire22 weeks · about 5 months
  11. 11NHS Ayrshire and Arran23 weeks · about 5 months
  12. 12NHS Dumfries and Galloway23 weeks · about 5 months
  13. 13NHS Tayside24 weeks · about 6 months
  14. 14NHS Grampian30 weeks · about 7 months

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.