Madrid/Valladolid (EFE).- The waiting lists in Castilla y León closed in 2022 with 33,566 patients awaiting surgery, with an average delay of more than four months, specifically 123 days, one more than the average 122 regional, to be intervened, according to data from the Ministry of Health at the end of last year.
In 2021, public health concluded with 42,107 patients pending on the waiting list in Castilla y León, which represents a rate of 18.34 per thousand inhabitants, the seventh highest in the autonomous region and above the national rate of 15.39 per thousand. thousand, and an average wait of 144 days, the fifth largest along with the Canary Islands.
In 2022, Castilla y León has reduced patients and delays, although it stands with a rate of patients pending surgery of 14.78 per thousand, below the national average of 17.10, and with the eighth lowest rate.
The percentage of patients who take more than six months to undergo surgery is 24.9 percent in the case of Castilla y León, higher than the 22 percent nationally, far from the 4.3 percent in Madrid or 6.7 in Galicia and 7.1 from the Basque Country.
Regarding the average wait, those 123 days on average for Castilla y León are the ninth highest figure, compared to 63 for Madrid, with 157 for the Canary Islands and Castilla-La Mancha, at the other extreme.
In the national group, almost 800,000 patients wait an average of 122 days to undergo surgery in public health, according to data from the Ministry of Health at the end of 2022, which also puts the average wait for consultation with a specialist at 95 days.
In total, 793,521 patients are on the waiting list for non-urgent surgery, a new historical record that represents 86,781 more patients than at the end of 2021.
The average waiting time remains at values similar to the end of 2021 when it was 123 days, but it is much higher than that registered in June 2022 (113 days then).
In addition, 22% of those 793,521 patients have been on the waiting list for more than six months, with Neurosurgery being the specialty with the most affected patients; 43.2% wait more than one semester.
The largest number of patients waiting is in the traumatology specialty in the case of Castilla y León, with 10,493, the same as in the SNS, followed by general surgery and the digestive system, with 6,851, which at the national level is in third place; and ophthalmology, with 5,809, which ranks second in the autonomous community.
By waiting time, those who have to endure the most in Castilla y León are traumatology, with 171 days, followed by neurosurgery, with 157, which ranks first nationally, and plastic surgery with 145.
The autonomous communities with the highest percentage of patients waiting for more than one semester are Extremadura (32% of patients), Catalonia (31.6%), Castilla-La Mancha (29%) and the Canary Islands (28.5%).
Castilla y León waiting lists
Castilla y León, with that 24.9 percent, has the eighth highest percentage in the autonomous community.
In contrast, the Community of Madrid is the one that registers the lowest percentage of patients with prolonged delays of more than one semester, only 4.3%, followed by Galicia (6.7%) and the Basque Country (7.1%).
The Canary Islands and Castilla-La Mancha have the longest average waiting times, 157 days ahead of Extremadura (156) and Catalonia and Cantabria, with 154, all of them much higher than the national average of 122.
Also in this case, the Community of Madrid has one of the shortest average waiting times, 63 days, along with the Basque Country (73) and Galicia (75).
average waiting time
Regarding the average waiting time for consultations and basic specialties, it has also risen from an average of 89 days in December 2021 to 95 days at the end of 2022 and despite the fact that in June there was a decrease and it was 79 days.
In Castilla y León, the wait for consultations is 95 days, on the national average, with 52.8, which is done by more than sixty (55.8 nationally), and a rate of waiting patients per 1,000 of 92.08, above of the 85.66 of the SNS.
In consultations, Andalusia is at the bottom as the most affected community with an average waiting time of 123 days, followed by the Canary Islands (121), Navarra (99) and Castilla y León (95). The best positioned is the Basque Country, with 48 days.
In the National Health System as a whole, 85.7 people per 1,000 inhabitants are awaiting an initial consultation with a specialist.
By specialties, in Castilla y León the wait ranges from 116 days for the traumatologist and 114 days for the urologist and 61 days for the gynecologist or general and digestive surgery. EFE
