Did something like this about NHS dentists in a couple of other subs recently so thought I'd look at hospital waiting lists this time.
Public Health Scotland publish how many people are on each list and how long they've been on it. I couldn't find anywhere that totals them up by board, so I worked it out.
Urology's the one that stands out here. The median wait in Tayside is 40 weeks. Next worst in the country is Lanarkshire at 22, and Borders manage 5.
There are 1,414 people on that list. 598 have been waiting over a year, 207 over two, and 118 over three. Tayside has 132 people altogether who've waited more than three years for treatment, and 118 of them are waiting for urology.
Rest of it:
Ophthalmology, 3,694 waiting, 687 over a year
Orthopaedics, 3,780 waiting, 679 over a year
Gynaecology, 1,252 waiting, 288 over a year
Oral surgery, median wait 38 weeks, longest in Scotland
13,826 people are waiting for planned treatment across Tayside, 2,656 of them for more than a year.
Worth saying it's June data so a few months behind, and it only counts people who actually got onto a list, so anyone whose referral was knocked back isn't in it anywhere. It's also the wait after you've already seen a consultant, not the wait to see one.
Every board and specialty's here: scotwaits.uk/waiting-times
