NHS Scotland waiting times (Stage of Treatment)
Published by Public Health Scotland · Official source
Update schedule
- Monthly (published within the quarterly release).
Level of detail
- NHS health board
What we show
- New outpatient and inpatient/day-case waiting lists (patients still waiting) per board
- The share seen within 12 weeks — Scotland's outpatient standard and Treatment Time Guarantee
- The median wait of patients recently seen (completed waits)
- A per-specialty breakdown of the longest outpatient waiting lists
Caveats
- Scotland's NHS is run separately from England, and the waiting-time standard is 12 weeks (not the 18-week Referral to Treatment standard used in England) — so these figures are NOT comparable to the England waiting times elsewhere on this site.
- Reported per health board (of treatment), not per hospital — Scotland does not publish this at hospital level.
- Median and 90th-percentile waits are published in days; we show them in weeks.
- Some small cells are suppressed by PHS for disclosure control and appear blank.
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