FoI Number
2025-078
Subject
Dementia
Date Received
28/04/2025
Request and Response

Under freedom of information laws, please can you tell me:?

  1. The current waiting times for patients referred to specialist services in your health board area with symptoms of dementia.
  2. Please tell me the current waiting times for those currently on the waiting list for their initial appointment broken down by median wait, 90th percentile and maximum wait if possible?
  3. Please also tell me the number of patients currently on the waiting list for an initial appointment with specialist services following a referral in relation to symptoms of dementia?
  4. Please also provide the waiting times experienced by the same category of patients seen during the last quarter of 2024, again broken down by median wait, 90th percentile and maximum wait if possible?

NHS Shetland have only just started recording Dementia appointments, therefore don’t have sufficient data to provide the requested information.

If it helps at all, we have received 33 referrals since 1st January 2025