| Description | Statistics relating to the waiting times of urgently referred patients diagnosed with cancer during October-December 2007 |
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| ISBN | (Web Only) |
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| Official Print Publication Date | |
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| Website Publication Date | May 20, 2008 |
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Table 9: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During October-December 2007 with Urological Cancers
| Area of diagnosis | Number of eligible urgent referrals# | Number treated within 2 months (62 days) of urgent referral | Proportion treated within 62 days of urgent referral | Minimum wait (Days) | Maximum wait (Days) | Median wait* (Days) | 90th Percentile** (Days) |
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| Scotland | 288 | 271 | 94.1% | 0 | 164 | 40 | 60 |
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| NOSCAN | 80 | 75 | 93.8% | 5 | 164 | 42 | 60 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Highland) | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | 13 | 44 | 32 | n/a |
| Grampian | 37 | 36 | 97.3% | 5 | 85 | 42 | 60 |
| Highland | 11 | 11 | 100.0% | 12 | 56 | 42 | 55 |
| Orkney | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | 66 | 66 | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 26 | 23 | 88.5% | 5 | 164 | 38 | 61 |
| Western Isles | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 24 | 24 | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 75 | 68 | 90.7% | 1 | 112 | 43 | 62 |
| Borders | 8 | 7 | 87.5% | 7 | 67 | 47 | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 11 | 10 | 90.9% | 1 | 74 | 31 | 69 |
| Fife | 21 | 19 | 90.5% | 13 | 80 | 47 | 63 |
| Lothian | 35 | 32 | 91.4% | 1 | 112 | 46 | 65 |
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| WOSCAN | 133 | 128 | 96.2% | 0 | 109 | 35 | 60 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Greater Glasgow) | 24 | 22 | 91.7% | 1 | 109 | 25 | 68 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 19 | 19 | 100.0% | 3 | 51 | 25 | 49 |
| Forth Valley | 24 | 24 | 100.0% | 6 | 60 | 35 | 58 |
| Lanarkshire | 26 | 25 | 96.2% | 2 | 85 | 37 | 61 |
| Greater Glasgow | 40 | 38 | 95.0% | 0 | 92 | 41 | 60 |
# Excludes patients; who died prior to receiving treatment, who refused treatment, with a patient induced non-clinical delay, who had co-morbidities, for clinical reasons and initially referred to an other non-cancer specialty.
* Medians have only been calculated where there are three or more patients with recorded referral and treatment dates.
** 90th percentiles have only been calculated where there are ten or more patients with recorded referral and treatment dates.
'-' Zero value
n/a: Not applicable due to small numbers.
Cancer waiting times statistics are subject to a programme of quality improvement focusing on consistency and coverage.
These improvements need to be taken in to account when making comparisons on quarter on quarter performance.