| 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 8: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During July-September 2008 with Upper GI 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 | 295 | 273 | 92.5% | 0 | 156 | 35 | 61 |
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| NOSCAN | 91 | 85 | 93.4% | 2 | 115 | 35 | 59 |
| Grampian | 43 | 41 | 95.3% | 2 | 94 | 36 | 59 |
| Highland | 15 | 13 | 86.7% | 2 | 115 | 37 | 92 |
| Orkney | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 56 | 56 | n/a | n/a |
| Shetland | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Tayside | 31 | 29 | 93.5% | 3 | 69 | 30 | 57 |
| Western Isles | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 10 | 10 | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 69 | 60 | 87.0% | 0 | 156 | 31 | 75 |
| Borders | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | 48 | 104 | n/a | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 12 | 7 | 58.3% | 3 | 113 | 46 | 106 |
| Fife | 18 | 17 | 94.4% | 8 | 74 | 35 | 63 |
| Lothian | 37 | 35 | 94.6% | 0 | 156 | 27 | 51 |
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| WOSCAN | 135 | 128 | 94.8% | 1 | 132 | 36 | 60 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 17 | 16 | 94.1% | 2 | 76 | 53 | 65 |
| Forth Valley | 23 | 23 | 100.0% | 3 | 58 | 24 | 46 |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 79 | 75 | 94.9% | 1 | 132 | 37 | 61 |
| Lanarkshire | 16 | 14 | 87.5% | 4 | 100 | 22 | 80 |
# 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.