Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 4 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many children and young people have been on an NHS waiting list in each year since 1999.
This information is not held centrally by either Scottish Government or Public Health Scotland (PHS).
PHS does not capture waiting list information on all NHS services and where they are captured, many are sourced from aggregate returns submitted to PHS by NHS boards. It is therefore not possible to identify the number of individuals that ‘have been on an NHS waiting list’. In addition, the aggregate data supplied by NHS boards does not provide patient-level information and as such, age breakdown is not available.