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The current NHS Lothian waiting times are available via the link below. This will be updated on a monthly basis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Patients will continue to be prioritised based on the clinical information provided in the referral.\u00a0\u00a0When a patient is added to a waiting list, they are sent a letter to confirm this.\u00a0 This letter also provides patients with the contact details for the appointments office.\u00a0 If a patient is removed from the waiting list, they will be sent a letter confirming this.\u00a0 As a patient\u2019s condition can change over time, the patients that have been waiting the longest will also be sent a waiting list review letter asking them to confirm that they still need to be sent an appointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waiting For NHS Treatment (www.gov.scot)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to Outpatient Waiting Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to Inpatient Waiting Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The current NHS Lothian waiting times are available via the link below. This will be updated on a monthly basis.    Patients will continue to be prioritised based on the clinical information provided in the referral.  When a patient is added to a waiting list, they are sent a letter to confirm this.  This letter also provides patients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-3659","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"The current NHS Lothian waiting times are available via the link below. This will be updated on a monthly basis.    Patients will continue to be prioritised based on the clinical information provided in the referral.  When a patient is added to a waiting list, they are sent a letter to confirm this.  This letter also provides patients","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18288,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3659\/revisions\/18288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}