Average wait of 46 days to see a specialist in Menorca

In the Balearic Islands as a whole there were 28,276 patients waiting for a consultants' appointment, equivalent to 27.34 per 1,000 inhabitants. The average waiting time was 36.04 days, although more than 4,000 patients had to wait for longer than 60 days.

SURGERY LIST
In Menorca, 929 patients had to wait an average of 51.11 days for surgery at the Mateu Orfila Hospital. In this instance the wait is the second shortest in the Balearic community, only Formentera's hospital operating on their patients within a shorter period of time (29.39 days).

The Balearic average of 57.75 days showed a reduction of 4.78 days (7.6%) on the last quarter of 2009. In total there were 12,798 people waiting for an operation, almost 75% of whom had a wait of less than three months.