Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 17 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what the current average wait time is for individuals seeking elective surgery for hernias within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
The Scottish Government does not hold this information.
Public Health Scotland (PHS) uses the national waiting times data mart to collect electronic patient records covering the waits that patients experience waiting for treatment as an inpatient or day case under the Treatment Time Guarantee. This data source can be used routinely to identify the specialty of treatment. However, although the records are designed to collect coded information on the procedure that is planned for the patient, this information is often either incomplete, lacking in essential detail and/or its accuracy cannot be assured. In addition, for patients who have completed their wait the procedures that was planned may not always reflect the procedure actually performed after they were admitted for treatment. The latter is not captured through the national data mart. Consequently, PHS is not currently able to report accurately on waiting times to this level of detail.
More detailed information on the procedures that is planned or undertaken for a patient will be held locally by NHS boards.