| 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 3: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During January-March 2008 with Head and Neck Cancer
| Area of diagnosis | Number of eligible urgent referrals# | Number treated within 2 months (62 days) of 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 | 99 | 94 | 94.9% | 5 | 107 | 44 | 59 |
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| NOSCAN | 14 | 14 | 100.0% | 13 | 62 | 41 | 61 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Highland) | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Grampian | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | 41 | 59 | 52 | n/a |
| Highland | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | 27 | 62 | 36 | n/a |
| Orkney | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 6 | 6 | 100.0% | 13 | 45 | 21 | n/a |
| Western Isles | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 26 | 25 | 96.2% | 22 | 107 | 46 | 61 |
| Borders | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 34 | 61 | 54 | n/a |
| Fife | 9 | 9 | 100.0% | 31 | 59 | 44 | n/a |
| Lothian | 14 | 13 | 92.9% | 22 | 107 | 48 | 84 |
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| WOSCAN | 59 | 55 | 93.2% | 5 | 70 | 43 | 59 |
| Argyll & Clyde (Greater Glasgow) | 6 | 6 | 100.0% | 25 | 54 | 42 | n/a |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 9 | 7 | 77.8% | 36 | 64 | 58 | n/a |
| Forth Valley | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 43 | 43 | n/a | n/a |
| Lanarkshire | 13 | 13 | 100.0% | 5 | 56 | 43 | 56 |
| Greater Glasgow | 30 | 28 | 93.3% | 9 | 70 | 39 | 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.