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People as patients. Waiting lists count people — wait types are not added together.

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PHS typed individuals estimates only; do NOT sum wait types. Diagnostics separate.

  • 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.

  • Estimated individuals waiting for a new outpatient appointment

    450,998Estimate

    Typed outpatient individuals. Overlaps possible with IP/DC — do not sum typed individual estimates to get total.

  • Estimated individuals waiting for inpatient or day case admission

    151,548Estimate

    Typed IP/DC individuals. Do not sum with outpatient individuals.

  • Ongoing waits for eight key diagnostic tests

    112,696Published

    Waits (not unique people). Separate series from SOT — do NOT add to outpatient/IP waits.

Still missing

  • Waiting lists by type are not added. An individual can sit on more than one list.

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.

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