HC Deb 14 April 1994 vol 241 c285W
Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of patients are seen by a medical practitioner within(a) 30 minutes or (b) within one hour of their out-patient appointment time.

Mr. Stewart

Information on how long patients have to wait to be seen after their appointment time at out-patient clinics is monitored by health boards and is not collected centrally. Health boards report that few patients overall wait longer than 30 minutes; that where they do they are given an explanation and an indication of how much longer the wait is likely to be; and that where monitoring reveals a particular problem action is taken to remedy it.