| Description | Statistics relating to the waiting times of urgently referred patients diagnosed with cancer during July-September 2008.
|
|---|
| ISBN | (Web Only) |
|---|
| Official Print Publication Date | |
|---|
| Website Publication Date | February 17, 2009 |
|---|
Table 1: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During July-September 2008 with Breast 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) |
| | | | | | | |
| Scotland | 446 | 439 | 98.4% | 4 | 100 | 37 | 56 |
| | | | | | | |
| NOSCAN | 120 | 114 | 95.0% | 4 | 100 | 42 | 61 |
| Grampian | 41 | 40 | 97.6% | 22 | 65 | 42 | 61 |
| Highland | 23 | 23 | 100.0% | 9 | 61 | 45 | 57 |
| Orkney | 1 | - | 0.0% | 70 | 70 | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 39 | 39 | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 51 | 47 | 92.2% | 4 | 100 | 40 | 61 |
| Western Isles | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 35 | 43 | 41 | n/a |
| | | | | | | |
| SCAN | 133 | 133 | 100.0% | 4 | 61 | 38 | 55 |
| Borders | 12 | 12 | 100.0% | 29 | 61 | 38 | 59 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 14 | 14 | 100.0% | 4 | 39 | 22 | 35 |
| Fife | 24 | 24 | 100.0% | 22 | 58 | 38 | 56 |
| Lothian | 83 | 83 | 100.0% | 8 | 61 | 39 | 55 |
| | | | | | | |
| WOSCAN | 193 | 192 | 99.5% | 8 | 72 | 30 | 54 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 27 | 26 | 96.3% | 11 | 72 | 35 | 57 |
| Forth Valley | 17 | 17 | 100.0% | 22 | 54 | 39 | 50 |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 102 | 102 | 100.0% | 13 | 61 | 29 | 50 |
| Lanarkshire | 47 | 47 | 100.0% | 8 | 59 | 29 | 57 |
# 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.