Question reference: S5W-34578
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 15 January 2021
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 3 February 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time for (a) cataract, (b) glaucoma, (c) age-related macular degeneration and (d) other ophthalmology treatments has been in each month since March 2019, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold data on sub speciality of ophthalmology.
The following table shows TTG ophthalmology ongoing waits from 31 March 2019 to 30 September 2020, on a quarterly basis:
NHS Board of treatment | 31-03-2019 | 30-06-2019 | 30-09-2019 | 31-12-2019 | 31-03-2020 | 30-06-2020 | 30-09-2020 |
NHS Scotland | 2,084 | 2,432 | 3,017 | 3,089 | 2,901 | 1,2026 | 8,004 |
Golden Jubilee National Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 7 | 35 | 114 | 189 | 294 | 866 | 596 |
NHS Borders | 8 | 67 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 234 | 234 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 45 | 66 | 95 | 71 | 44 | 492 | 231 |
NHS Fife | 9 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 76 | 777 | 234 |
NHS Forth Valley | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 279 | 138 |
NHS Grampian | 441 | 258 | 309 | 334 | 360 | 1,461 | 1,418 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 629 | 1,052 | 1,201 | 1,044 | 653 | 2,884 | 2,047 |
NHS Highland | 325 | 243 | 308 | 258 | 297 | 814 | 426 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 179 | 181 | 263 | 469 | 497 | 1,587 | 1,309 |
NHS Lothian | 26 | 34 | 109 | 55 | 47 | 966 | 505 |
NHS Orkney | 25 | 21 | 6 | 37 | 61 | 11 | 2 |
NHS Shetland | 17 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 1 | 77 | 47 |
NHS Tayside | 373 | 466 | 591 | 605 | 554 | 1,520 | 809 |
NHS Western Isles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 8 |