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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 | | 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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