Urology at NHS Western Isles
Privately, flexible cystoscopy runs £1,868–£2,338 across 4 Scottish providers.
NHS Western Isles covers Stornoway, Benbecula and Castlebay and the surrounding area.
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Waiting on the NHS
Urology
NHS Western Isles
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.
10 weeks
Median wait
Half have waited less than this so far — about 2 months.
21 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 7 patients, 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 7 people 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
Urology
Priced as flexible cystoscopy
A cystoscopy is an investigation. If it finds something that needs treating, that treatment is a separate cost.
£1,868–£2,338
Typical self-pay price range
Package price: the procedure, hospital stay and standard follow-up. What else is covered varies by provider.
Based on 4 providers in Scotland
- Nuffield Health Edinburgh Hospital, Edinburgh£1,868
- Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital, Glasgow£2,333
- Ross Hall Hospital, Glasgow£2,338
- Kings Park Hospital, Stirling£2,338
These aren’t strictly like-for-like. Nuffield Health Edinburgh Hospital and Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital don’t say either way. Each price links to the page it came from.
Last checked 6 August 2026. Prices are Scotland-wide, not specific to your health board — self-pay patients can be treated at any private hospital. A quote for your own case may fall outside this range.
Median wait: 10 weeks. Typical self-pay cost: £1,868–£2,338.
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: 224 people waiting, median 10 days, 6% over six weeks.
£330
MRI scan (one area)
2 providers: Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital, Spire Edinburgh Hospitals
On the NHS here: 141 people waiting, median 30 days, 32% over six weeks.
£470–£625
CT scan (one area)
1 provider: Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital
On the NHS here: 124 people waiting, median 9 days, 3% over six weeks.
£650
NHS diagnostic figures are for NHS Western Isles 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.