| Description | Statistics relating to the waiting times of urgently referred patients diagnosed with cancer during January-March 2008. Also 2007 cancer waiting times statisics for breast cancer, acute leukaemia and childhood cancers
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| ISBN | (Web Only) |
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| Website Publication Date | August 19, 2008 |
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Table 12: Waiting-Times Statistics for Urgent Referral to Treatment by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During 2007 with Acute Leukaemia
| Area of diagnosis | Number of eligible urgent referrals# | Number treated within 1 month (31 days) of urgent referral | Proportion treated within 31 days of urgent referral | Minimum wait (Days) | Maximum wait (Days) | Median wait* (Days) | 90th Percentile** (Days) |
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| Scotland | 100 | 99 | 99.0% | 0 | 33 | 5 | 19 |
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| NOSCAN | 27 | 27 | 100.0% | 0 | 15 | 6 | 11 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Highland) | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 2 | 2 | n/a | n/a |
| Grampian | 23 | 23 | 100.0% | 0 | 15 | 6 | 11 |
| Highland | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 13 | 13 | n/a | n/a |
| Orkney1 | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland1 | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 5 | 8 | n/a | n/a |
| Western Isles1 | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 32 | 32 | 100.0% | 1 | 31 | 4 | 23 |
| Borders | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 1 | 7 | n/a | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | 4 | 24 | 13 | n/a |
| Fife | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 1 | 4 | 2 | n/a |
| Lothian | 18 | 18 | 100.0% | 2 | 31 | 5 | 28 |
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| WOSCAN | 41 | 40 | 97.6% | 0 | 33 | 8 | 25 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Greater Glasgow) | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | 19 | 33 | n/a | n/a |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 1 | 27 | 11 | n/a |
| Forth Valley | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 1 | 13 | 8 | n/a |
| Lanarkshire | 6 | 6 | 100.0% | 0 | 15 | 6 | n/a |
| Greater Glasgow | 22 | 22 | 100.0% | 1 | 29 | 6 | 20 |
# 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 year on year performance.