Claim: There are 840,000 Scots on NHS waiting lists.
Fact-check: We can't say what proportion of Scots are on NHS waiting lists - Full Fact
Verdict: this is the number of cases, not the number of people, on the three main nhs scotland waiting lists. some people will be waiting for more than one thing, so public health scotland says the data shouldn't be combined in this way.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Nasim Asl
Date published: 2024-06-18T00:00:00