| Description | Statistics relating to the waiting times of urgently referred patients diagnosed with cancer during July-September 2008.
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| ISBN | (Web Only) |
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| Website Publication Date | February 17, 2009 |
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Table 3: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During July-September 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) |
| Scotland | 114 | 103 | 90.4% | 5 | 153 | 45 | 64 |
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| NOSCAN | 24 | 23 | 95.8% | 11 | 68 | 40 | 59 |
| Grampian | 10 | 10 | 100.0% | 17 | 55 | 39 | 55 |
| Highland | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 11 | 26 | n/a | 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 | 12 | 11 | 91.7% | 14 | 68 | 43 | 66 |
| Western Isles | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 22 | 20 | 90.9% | 22 | 132 | 55 | 80 |
| Borders | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 57 | 57 | n/a | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | 34 | 87 | n/a | n/a |
| Fife | 5 | 5 | 100.0% | 42 | 61 | 49 | n/a |
| Lothian | 14 | 13 | 92.9% | 22 | 132 | 55 | 97 |
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| WOSCAN | 68 | 60 | 88.2% | 5 | 153 | 44 | 72 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 9 | 5 | 55.6% | 13 | 153 | 52 | n/a |
| Forth Valley | 4 | 3 | 75.0% | 5 | 72 | 33 | n/a |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 42 | 39 | 92.9% | 7 | 116 | 44 | 61 |
| Lanarkshire | 13 | 13 | 100.0% | 20 | 62 | 42 | 61 |
# 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.