Waiting Times Report
Covid-19 has placed challenges on our NHS services and across Scotland we are now delivering care differently to support patients. During this pandemic, patients have been seen and treated based on their clinical urgency and we will continue to do so whilst the NHS is remobilised nationwide.
The following table shows the number of weeks that patients on an NHS Orkney Outpatient Waiting List have waited for an urgent or routine appointment or treatment over the last month.
| Specialty | Average waiting time for a routine appointment (weeks) | Average waiting time for an Urgent appointment (weeks) | Number of weeks we expect 90% of patients waiting for a routine appointment to be seen within | Number of weeks we expect 90% of patients waiting for an urgent appointment to be seen within |
| Adolescent Psychiatry | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Audiological Science | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Cardiology | 22 | 3 | 49 | 7 |
| Dermatology | 8 | 4 | 14 | 7 |
| Diabetes | 6 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
| Dietetics | 33 | 0 | 73 | 0 |
| Ear, Nose & Throat | 21 | 8 | 37 | 12 |
| General Medicine | 8 | 6 | 16 | 6 |
| General Psychiatry | 25 | 8 | 49 | 13 |
| General Surgery | 4 | 14 | 6 | 4 |
| Gynaecology | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Ophthalmology | 22 | 1 | 48 | 1 |
| Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Oral Surgery | 19 | 0 | 32 | 0 |
| Paediatric | 10 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| Paediatric Surgery | 10 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| Pain Management | 23 | 0 | 35 | 0 |
| Physiotherapy | 22 | 5 | 52 | 5 |
| Rheumatology | 17 | 2 | 27 | 3 |
| Speech and Language Therapy | 59 | 0 | 135 | 0 |
| Trauma and Orthopaedic | 16 | 2 | 26 | 2 |
Data ran on 5.10.2023
Script date 4.10.2023
**Please note these waiting times are indicative only**