Urology 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 Borders is currently 5 weeks while NHS Tayside is 40 weeks. Both figures rest on a large enough sample to be meaningful.
- 1NHS Borders5 weeks · about 5 weeks
- 2NHS Ayrshire and Arran8 weeks · about 2 months
- 3NHS Western Islesonly 7 patients10 weeks · about 2 months
- 4NHS Forth Valley14 weeks · about 3 months
- 5NHS Fife16 weeks · about 4 months
- 6NHS Dumfries and Galloway17 weeks · about 4 months
- 7NHS Grampian18 weeks · about 4 months
- 8NHS Lothian19 weeks · about 4 months
- 9NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde20 weeks · about 5 months
- 10NHS Highland21 weeks · about 5 months
- 11NHS Lanarkshire22 weeks · about 5 months
- 12NHS Tayside40 weeks · about 9 months
- –NHS OrkneyNot published
- –NHS ShetlandNot 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.