NHS Scotland performance against LDP standards
Performance data on the current Local Delivery Plan (LDP) Standards - priorities set and agreed between the Scottish Government and NHS Boards to provide assurance on NHS Scotland performance.
LDP Standard
100 per cent of patients to wait no longer than 12 weeks from the patient agreeing treatment with the hospital to treatment for inpatient or day case treatment (Treatment Time Guarantee).
Current national performance
In the quarter ending June 2022, 61.6% of patients were reported as commencing inpatient/day case treatment within 12 weeks.
About this LDP standard
The treatment time guarantee is set out in legislation “The Patient Right’s (Scotland) Act 2011”. It places a legal requirement on health boards that once planned inpatient and day case treatment has been agreed with the patient the patient must receive that treatment within 12 weeks.
Performance against this standard
The standard is for 100% of patients to be seen within 12 weeks of agreeing inpatient/day case treatment. This standard is also a legal requirement as set out by “The Patient Right’s (Scotland) Act 2011”.
The data published on 06 September 2022 covers performance against the waiting time standards for first Outpatient appointments and Treatment Time Guarantee (TTG) for the quarter ending March 2022.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has continued to have an impact on the delivery of NHS services. While many services are now gradually being reinstated, performance against these targets and standards is still impacted by this situation.
During the quarter ending June 2022, 61.6% of patients were reported as commencing inpatient/day case treatment within 12 weeks.
The graph below shows the percentage of patients who have started inpatient/day case treatment within 12 weeks since quarter ending June 2015.
NHS Board level performance is shown for the most recent time period in the table below.
The table below shows the percentage of patients who have started inpatient/day case treatment within 12 weeks, by NHS Board, for quarter ending June 2022.
|
NHS Board |
Quarter ending June 2022 |
|
NHS AYRSHIRE & ARRAN |
65.0% |
|
NHS BORDERS |
57.8% |
|
NHS DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY |
58.7% |
|
NHS FIFE |
56.0% |
|
NHS FORTH VALLEY |
59.5% |
|
NHS GRAMPIAN |
48.9% |
|
NHS GREATER GLASGOW & CLYDE |
71.0% |
|
NHS HIGHLAND |
62.2% |
|
NHS LANARKSHIRE |
46.1% |
|
NHS LOTHIAN |
61.9% |
|
NHS ORKNEY |
67.5% |
|
NHS SHETLAND |
80.2% |
|
NHS TAYSIDE* |
59.4% |
|
NHS WESTERN ISLES |
54.3% |
|
NHS NATIONAL WAITING TIMES CENTRE |
69.3% |
|
NHSSCOTLAND |
61.6% |
Source: National Waiting Times Data Warehouse
* Due to technical problems experienced with data submitted to the PHS Waiting Times warehouse, NHS Tayside has provided locally derived figures to inform these statistics.
While the formal measure of performance against the 12 weeks treatment time guarantee applies to patients seen (completed waits), it is also worth noting that the number of patients waiting for treatment at a point in time is also an important measure in assessing NHS hospitals' performance.
Of those waiting at 30 June 2022, 43,971 (31.5%) had been waiting 12 weeks or less. This percentage has decreased slightly from 32.5% (44,879) at 31 March 2022 and remains markedly down on the average reported in 2019 (68.7%, 52,918).
More information on the comparisons between patients seen (completed waits) and patients waiting (ongoing waits) can be seen in section 2 and in Appendix 1 of the full report from PHS.
Further information
Treatment Time Guarantee Statistics
Waiting Times Improvement Plan
Related National Outcomes
- We are healthy and active
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- We grow up loved, safe and respected so that we realise our full potential
Page updated: 23 September 2022.
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