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Gold pack 24 August 2026. Public papers only. Missing is not zero.

  • Estimated individuals on at least one new outpatient / inpatient / day case waiting list

    580,545Estimate

    PHS estimated unique individuals — NOT a sum of wait counts. Do not add to diagnostics. Confidence labelled estimate per PHS wording.

  • Scottish Government → NHS boards (territorial + national)

    £20.2 billion to NHS boardsPublished

    Exhibit 1: NHS boards £20.2bn of £20.6bn health budget (centrally retained £0.4bn). Funding envelope to boards — not each board’s audited outturn. Envelope, not outturn.

  • Scottish Government → Territorial NHS boards

    £17.6 billion territorial boardsPublished

    Exhibit 1 territorial boards. Do not mix with HO/LA pots. Envelope, not outturn.

  • Scottish Government → National NHS boards

    £2.6 billion national boardsPublished

    Exhibit 1 national boards. Envelope, not outturn.

Still missing

  • Board baselines are SG funding envelopes, not audited board outturn.
  • Do not add board envelopes to Audit Scotland’s £20.6bn or to SG TME.

Waiting lists by type (do not sum types)

Scotland. Blank years are missing, not zero. Source

  • individuals any op ip dc580,545
  • individuals new outpatient450,998
  • individuals inpatient daycase151,548
  • diagnostic ongoing waits 8 tests112,696

PHS: do not add ongoing waits across outpatient/IP/diagnostics. Individuals estimates may overlap across types. | Open data CSVs found on opendata.nhs.scot (side-search); typed June series in series.health.ongoing_waits_by_type_june.

Ongoing waits by type at 30 June (do not sum types)

Scotland. Blank years are missing, not zero. Source

  • 2016-06297,592 · 58,961
  • 2017-06— · —
  • 2018-06— · —
  • 2019-06323,263 · 76,151
  • 2020-06265,358 · 84,857
  • 2021-06392,583 · 96,052
  • 2022-06449,058 · 138,484
  • 2023-06523,349 · 149,330
  • 2024-06563,816 · 155,972
  • 2025-06568,947 · 159,040
  • 2026-06496,349 · 157,191

Machine-readable CSV sot_performance_ongoing_waits_jun26.csv. PatientType kept separate. June 2017–2018 New Outpatient/IPDC suppressed (:) in extract — points marked missing. Complements individuals estimates in series.health.waiting_lists_by_type.

NHS board baseline SG funding 2024-25

Named bodies. Blank years are missing, not zero. Swipe sideways for years. Source

Board2025
Healthcare Improvement Scotland£33.8m
National Waiting Times Centre Board (Golden Jubilee)£81.8m
NHS 24£91.4m
NHS Ayrshire and Arran£883.5m
NHS Borders£260.4m
NHS Dumfries and Galloway£364.7m
NHS Fife£829.2m
NHS Forth Valley£658.9m
NHS Grampian£1,176m
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde£2,733m
NHS Highland£807.1m
NHS Lanarkshire£1,489m
NHS Lothian£1,826m
NHS Orkney£63.6m
NHS Shetland£62.4m
NHS Tayside£951.2m
NHS Western Isles£92.9m
Public Health Scotland£57.5m
Scottish Ambulance Service Board£349.2m
The State Hospital£44.5m

Directory envelope for each board. Not audited board outturn. Not Audit Scotland’s £20.6bn health spending. Rows are not added into TME on this page.

Money lines

Each row is its own pot. Envelope is not outturn. Awards are not payments. These rows are not added together.

This is a leaf. Empty is not £0.