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A Scottish Executive Review of Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy for Children and Speech and Language Therapy for Adults with Learning Disabilities and Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Appendix J Numbers of children on NHS OT, PT and SLT waiting lists in April 2002.

Table 1: Numbers of children on NHS OT waiting lists in April 2002.

NHS Board Area

No. of children currently waiting

No. waiting per WTE

Longest current wait in weeks

Argyll and Clyde

123

16.2

104

Ayrshire and Arran

81

10.3

52

Borders

34

9.7

3

Dumfries and Galloway

63

14.4

28

Fife

190

15.6

64

Forth Valley

240

40

2.5

Grampian

165

12.3

36

Greater Glasgow

327

19.9

83

Highland

176

35.2

104

Lanarkshire

200

15.7

50

Lothian

53

1.7

15

Orkney

8

8

24

Shetland

3

3

4

Tayside

118

8.8

56

Western Isles

28

21.5

33

Totals

1809

Notes:
NHS Argyll and Clyde - Longest wait in Renfrewshire and Inverclyde PCT is 52 weeks. Longest wait in Lomond and Argyll PCT is 104 weeks. The latter results from a waiting list inherited from a previously contracted out service.
Grampian - Grampian University Hospitals Trust longest wait is 32 weeks. Moray longest wait is 36 weeks.
Lothian - Lothian University Hospitals Trust longest wait is 11 weeks. West Lothian NHS Trust longest wait is 15 weeks.
Tayside - Perth and Kinross LHCC longest wait is 40 weeks. Tayside University Hospitals Trust longest wait is 56 weeks.

Table 2: Numbers of children on NHS PT waiting lists in April 2002.

NHS Board Area

No. of children currently waiting

No. waiting per WTE

Longest current wait in weeks

Argyll and Clyde

46

4.5

20

Ayrshire and Arran

0

0

-

Borders

20

6

10

Dumfries and Galloway

5

1.2

28

Fife

10

1

4

Forth Valley

66

8.6

60

Grampian

18

1.6

4

Greater Glasgow

28

0.8

16

Highland

1

0.1

6

Lanarkshire

38

2.4

20

Lothian

62

1.8

18

Orkney

0

0

0

Shetland

-

-

-

Tayside

6

0.7

7

Western Isles

0

0

0

Totals

300

Notes:
Argyll & Clyde - Acute Trust waiting list figures for in-patients at Royal Alexandria Hospital not included.
Borders - Acute Trust waiting list figures were unavailable.
Dumfries & Galloway - waiting list data for Primary CareTrust only as acute trust has no waiting list as inpatients only.
Grampian - waiting list figures provided by the Primary Care Trust are not comprehensive.
Greater Glasgow - figures for waiting list refer to CDC team only.
Highland - waiting list figures are for Acute Trust only - figures from Primary Care Trust were unavailable.
Lanarkshire - waiting list figures provided by the Primary Care Trust are not comprehensive. Acute Trust figures were unavailable.
Shetland waiting list figures were unavailable.
Tayside - waiting list figures for Child Health services and Ninewells service in Acute Trust only. Primary Care Trust data were unavailable.

Table 3: Numbers of children on NHS SLT waiting lists in April 2002.

NHS Board Area

No. of children currently waiting

No. waiting per WTE

Longest current wait in weeks

Argyll and Clyde

337

6.4

31

Ayrshire and Arran

70

2.5

11

Borders

146

10.9

20

Dumfries and Galloway

0

0

6

Fife

171

5.2

13

Forth Valley

397

13.3

49

Grampian

1234

29.7

40

Greater Glasgow

548

6

50

Highland

50

1.9

10

Lanarkshire

557

9.4

9

Lothian

191

1.9

33

Orkney

53

24.1

32

Shetland

5

2.3

6

Tayside

50

2.9

6

Western Isles

0

0

6

Totals

3472

Notes:
Argyll and Clyde - longest wait in Lomond and Argyll PCT is 30 weeks and in Renfrewshire and Inverclyde PCT is 24 weeks.
Grampian waiting list figures made up of 21 waiting in UHT and 1213 waiting in PCT. Longest wait is 40 weeks in Primary Care Trust but only 5 weeks in the Acute Trust.
Lothian - Figure of 191 includes 165 in Edinburgh and 26 in West Lothian. Lothian University Hospitals Trust figures are for Edinburgh only and so exclude East Lothian and Midlothian. Longest wait is 33 weeks in the Lothian University Hospitals Trust in and 22 weeks in West Lothian.
Tayside figures for acute trust only and include no waiting list at Ninewells Hospital and 50 children waiting at the Centre for Child Health. Figures from the PCT were unavailable.
Western Isles figures are estimated.

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