Trauma & Orthopaedics at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Both are medians for people currently on the list at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde — half have waited less, half longer. One in ten is still waiting at 47 weeks.

Added together, the journey from GP referral to treatment runs about 8 months (36 weeks) for people who have completed both stages. This total uses the completed-waits measure, because two “waited so far” figures cannot be added — someone still queuing for surgery finished their outpatient leg long ago.

You said you have waited 30 weeks. At NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, 71% of people on this list have been waiting less time than you, and 29% have been waiting longer.

This places you in the current queue, not against your odds of being treated. Lists are ordered by clinical urgency rather than by time waited, so being further along the distribution does not by itself mean you are close to the front.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is 4 of 13 boards publishing a usable figure for Trauma & Orthopaedics, counting fastest first.

3 boards are currently faster:

• NHS Western Isles6 weeks — 13 weeks shorter
• NHS Orkney9 weeks — 10 weeks shorter
• NHS Fife18 weeks — 1 week shorter

Scotland has no equivalent of England’s Right to Choose, so you cannot ask to be referred to a faster board. This is worth raising with your GP only because some boards do not run every specialty and already send patients elsewhere — in which case the wait that applies to you may be the neighbouring board’s.

Over the 36 months to June 2026, the median wait at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has fallen by 16 weeks, from 34.6 weeks to 18.9 weeks.

There are 10,802 people on this list, and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde treated 770 in the reporting month. At that rate the existing queue would take about a year to clear.

That is a floor, not a forecast. It assumes nobody else joins the list, and people join constantly.

Published self-pay prices for primary total hip replacement in Scotland run £13,900–£15,832, across 4 hospitals. Last checked 2 August 2026.

• Ross Hall Hospital · Glasgow£13,900
• Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital · Glasgow£15,057
• Albyn Hospital · Aberdeen£15,345
• Spire Murrayfield Hospital · Edinburgh£15,832

Not every one of those includes the consultant’s first appointment, which is £191–£275 where it is charged separately. Adding it where it applies puts the realistic range at £14,091–£16,107.

No Scottish provider we have found includes pre-operative scans in the package price — those are charged on top and depend on what you need. Nor does any published price cover what happens if a complication appears months later. The Scottish Government’s position is that post-operative care forms part of what a private patient buys, and that NHS boards are under no obligation to provide it. Emergency care is always provided. Ask the hospital directly what their package covers.

Most of the decision people think they face is whether to pay for an operation. The cheaper question is what it costs to find out how serious the problem is.

• Initial consultant appointment£191–£275
• Ultrasound scan£330
• MRI scan (one area)£470–£625
• CT scan (one area)£650

A consultation plus one scan therefore runs roughly £521–£925 depending on which scan you need — against £13,900 and up for the operation itself.

NHS diagnostic waits at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for comparison:

• MRI27 days · 32% over six weeks
• CT15 days · 4% over six weeks
• Ultrasound21 days · 12% over six weeks

MRI, CT and Ultrasound figures count people currently on the list, and are published monthly.

Paying for a diagnosis does not move you up an NHS list by itself, and whether a private result is accepted is a matter for your GP and your board. What it can do is establish clinical urgency, which is what lists are ordered by. If a symptom might be serious, see your GP rather than pricing this up — urgent NHS pathways for suspected cancer are measured in weeks and are usually faster than anything you can buy.

• Where would I actually be referred, and is there more than one site running this list?
• How is this list ordered, and what would change my priority on it?
• To the hospital: does your price include the first appointment, pre-operative scans, and treatment if a complication appears later?
• To the hospital: is the consultant who would treat me also working in the NHS, and where?
• To your board, in writing: what happens to my place on the NHS list if I pay privately for a consultation or a scan?

Waiting times are Public Health Scotland’s Stage of Treatment and Diagnostic Waiting Times publications, for June 2026. Private prices are read by hand from each hospital’s own published self-pay list, with the source page recorded, and re-checked periodically.

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Not medical or financial advice. Waiting times vary by clinical urgency and individual circumstance; private prices vary by consultant, hospital and case complexity. If this report did not tell you anything useful, reply to your receipt and you will be refunded.