According to nationally consistent guidelines for nonurgent care, the aim is to make decisions of treatment and prioritizing on systematically clear grounds both within the public and the private sector. In vascular surgery, vertical prioritizing has been carried out and attempts have been made to extensively assess the effectiveness of therapy. We aim to provide a review of the current state of vascular surgery and the resulting health benefit by using the available rough effectiveness indicators, as a register for national quality assurance is lacking.