Renal Medicine at NHS Shetland
No Scottish provider publishes a price for renal medicine treatment, so only the NHS side of this comparison exists.
NHS Shetland covers Lerwick and the surrounding area.
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Waiting on the NHS
Renal Medicine
NHS Shetland
How long people currently on the list have waited so far. Someone referred last week counts as a one-week wait, so this reads low too — just less so.
18 weeks
Median wait
Half have waited less than this so far — about 4 months.
20 weeks
90th percentile wait
1 in 10 have already waited longer than this — about 5 months.
Treat these numbers with caution. They are based on just 1 patient, which is too few to give a reliable median. Boards this small often send patients to a neighbouring board for treatment — ask your GP where you’d actually be referred.
How does your own wait compare?
A median describes the middle. If you’ve been waiting a long time, it probably describes nothing like your experience.
This is the wait from being listed for treatment, not from seeing your GP. The outpatient wait to see the specialist comes first and no figure is published for it here.
Inpatient and day case figures for June 2026, based on 1 person on the list, published by Public Health Scotland. Derived from banded figures, so they are close estimates rather than exact. Your own wait depends on clinical urgency.
Paying privately
Renal Medicine
£191–£275
A first private appointment
Across 4 Scottish providers. This is the consultant's fee for the appointment itself — not any tests, and not treatment.
No price collected for Renal Medicine treatment itself. Every price here is read by hand from a hospital’s own published list, and no Scottish provider publishes one for this specialty that we’ve found.
The NHS figures beside this are real and complete. If you know of a provider publishing prices for this specialty, that’s genuinely useful to hear.
Median wait: 18 weeks.
Based on fewer than 30 patients — see the caution note above.
Paying to find out, rather than paying to fix it
Some people pay privately for a consultation or a scan, then take the results back to the NHS. It costs hundreds rather than thousands, and what it buys is a diagnosis — not a place further up any queue.
Initial consultant appointment
4 providers: Spire Edinburgh Hospitals, Ross Hall Hospital, Albyn Hospital, Kings Park Hospital
£191–£275
Ultrasound scan
1 provider: Nuffield Health Edinburgh Hospital
On the NHS here: 116 people waiting, median 11 days, 31% over six weeks.
£330
MRI scan (one area)
2 providers: Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital, Spire Edinburgh Hospitals
On the NHS here: 82 people waiting, median 18 days, 13% over six weeks.
£470–£625
CT scan (one area)
1 provider: Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital
On the NHS here: 51 people waiting, median 12 days, 10% over six weeks.
£650
NHS diagnostic figures are for NHS Shetland as at 2026-03, and count people currently on the list rather than how long completed patients waited. That dataset is published a few months behind the treatment waits above.
A scan does not change your position on the NHS list by itself. What it can do is establish how urgent your case is, and urgency is what determines priority. Whether a private result is accepted, and what happens next, is a matter for your GP and your health board — ask them before spending anything. Scan prices usually exclude the consultant appointment needed to refer you and to interpret the result.