Northern Ireland has the highest per-capita waiting list in the UK

Guardian graphic. Source: NHS England, Public Health Scotland, Welsh government. Note: Figures for England and Wales represent patient pathways waiting to start treatment. Figures for Scotland represent the length of time patients wait to be seen as a new outpatient or admitted for treatment as an inpatient or day case. Northern Ireland figures are combined waits for diagnostics, inpatient and day case appointments and consultant-led outpatient appointments - these may contain duplicates. Wales figures for a year are 53 weeks, all other nations are 52.