Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.Six out of 10 young people are waiting over 18 weeks for a mental health consultation from NHS Lothian.The latest month of statistics for June released by Public Health Scotland reveals an alarming 147 out of 247 patients waited over four and a half months.This is a 59.5 per cent of patients and a spike of almost 10 per cent from the month previous when 49.7 per cent of patients waited 18 weeks to be seen by a mental health professional.The figures also showed that as of June 2020 there are 2482 young people waiting to be seen in Edinburgh and the Lothians, with a record 472 waiting for over a year - 19 per cent.Since the global health pandemic.