- FoI Number
- 2024-793
- Subject
- Speech Therapy
- Date Received
- 18/03/2025
- Request and Response
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For each financial year from 2019/20 to 2024/25 (most recent):
- the total number of referrals for speech and language therapy, broken down by a) adult and b) children and young people?
- both the median and longest wait from referral to an initial appointment/assessment, broken down by a) adult and b) children and young people?
- both the median and longest wait from referral to starting treatment, broken down by a) adult and b) children and young people?
- the total number of patients currently on a speech and language therapy waiting list, broken down by a) adult and b) children and young people?
See table below
Question
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
2024-2025
1.a.Total Adults referred
79
82
93
120
118
111
1.b.Total Children referred
123
110
133
86
78
84
2.a. Adults - Median wait from referral to IA
3 weeks
3 weeks
6 weeks
3 weeks
3 weeks
2.5 weeks
2.b. Children - Median wait from referral to IA
9 weeks
11 weeks
18 weeks
14 weeks
13 weeks
16 weeks
2A.a.Adult - Longest wait from referral to IA
38 weeks
23 weeks
28 weeks
37 weeks
17 weeks
17 weeks (of those seen, some referred in this time remain unseen to date)
2A.b. Children - Longest wait from referral to IA
39 weeks
39 weeks
42 weeks
49 weeks
49 weeks
33 weeks (of those seen, some referred in this time remain unseen to date)
3. Wait times from referral to starting treatment
no waiting list
no waiting list
no waiting list
no waiting list
no waiting list
no waiting list
4.a. Adults - total number of patients currently on wait list
<5
4.b. Children - total number of patients currently on wait list
35
Where we have given <5 answers, this is because NHS Shetland considers that providing more specific information carries a high risk of identifying individuals. As such and in accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 38(1)(b) as read with s 38 (2A) as the information constitutes personal data and disclosure would breach the confidentiality of the data subjects.
