Question reference: S6W-07014
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 3 March 2022
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Current status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 14 March 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have currently been waiting over (a) one year, (b) two years and (c) three years for hip or knee replacement surgery, also broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Tables 1 and 2 present the number of patients covered by the Treatment Time Guarantee (TTG) waiting within an inpatient or day-case setting by NHS Board at 31 December 2021, and the number waiting over 1, 2 and 3 years for a hip or knee replacement procedure, respectively.
Table 1: Number of patients waiting for a hip replacement procedure 1,2 as an inpatient or day case at 31 st December 2021, broken down by NHS Board of treatment and length of wait.
NHS Board of Treatment | Total Waiting | Waiting over 1 year 3 | Waiting over 2 years 3 | Waiting over 3 years 3 |
NHS Scotland | 7,899 | 1,762 | 210 | 2 |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 680 | 67 | 8 | 2 |
NHS Borders | 236 | 60 | 2 | 0 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 208 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
NHS Fife | 410 | 35 | 0 | 0 |
NHS Forth Valley | 219 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
NHS Grampian | 990 | 310 | 41 | 0 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 2,292 | 702 | 132 | 0 |
NHS Highland 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
NHS Lanarkshire | 653 | 141 | 7 | 0 |
NHS Lothian | 1,346 | 279 | 0 | 0 |
NHS Orkney | 50 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
NHS Shetland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NHS Tayside | 776 | 143 | 19 | 0 |
NHS Western Isles | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: PHS Waiting Times Datamart
1 NHS Highland do not submit procedure level detail (OPCS4 codes) to the Waiting Times Datamart. Some other Boards have less than 100% completeness for this field. Therefore, figures for NHS Scotland are a potential underestimate.
2 See background notes for specific OPCS4 codes used in this analysis
3 Note that the number of patients waiting over 1 year includes those waiting over 2 years, which in turn includes those waiting over 3 years.
Table 2: Number of patients waiting for a knee replacement procedure 1,2 as an inpatient or day case at 31 st December 2021, broken down by NHS Board of treatment and length of wait.
NHS Board of Treatment | Total Waiting | Waiting over 1 year 3 | Waiting over 2 years 3 | Waiting over 3 years 3 |
NHS Scotland | 9,228 | 2,637 | 357 | 1 |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 789 | 121 | 26 | 1 |
NHS Borders | 242 | 112 | 21 | 0 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 190 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
NHS Fife | 422 | 19 | 1 | 0 |
NHS Forth Valley | 239 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
NHS Grampian | 1,138 | 462 | 77 | 0 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 2,923 | 1090 | 193 | 2 |
NHS Highland 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
NHS Lanarkshire | 825 | 216 | 5 | 0 |
NHS Lothian | 1,546 | 400 | 0 | 0 |
NHS Orkney | 38 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
NHS Shetland | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NHS Tayside | 786 | 185 | 33 | 0 |
NHS Western Isles | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: PHS Waiting Times Datamart
1 NHS Highland do not submit procedure level detail (OPCS4 codes) to the Waiting Times Datamart. Some other Boards have less than 100% completeness for this field. Therefore, figures for NHS Scotland are a potential underestimate.
2 See background notes for specific OPCS4 codes used in this analysis
3 Note that the number of patients waiting over 1 year includes those waiting over 2 years, which in turn includes those waiting over 3 years.