| Description | Number and proportion of urgently referred cancer patients who began treatment within 62 days |
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| ISBN | (Web Only) |
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| Website Publication Date | May 19, 2009 |
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Table 10: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During October-December 2008 for all Nine Tumour Sites
| 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 | 2,368 | 2,258 | 95.4% | 0 | 284 | 36 | 60 |
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| NOSCAN | 617 | 586 | 95.0% | 0 | 131 | 37 | 60 |
| Grampian | 253 | 242 | 95.7% | 0 | 131 | 40 | 59 |
| Highland | 140 | 133 | 95.0% | 0 | 103 | 33 | 61 |
| Orkney | 7 | 7 | 100.0% | 0 | 44 | 23 | 44 |
| Shetland | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 43 | 58 | 55 | 58 |
| Tayside | 201 | 189 | 94.0% | 0 | 101 | 37 | 60 |
| Western Isles | 13 | 12 | 92.3% | 6 | 63 | 34 | 62 |
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| SCAN | 686 | 652 | 95.0% | 0 | 223 | 35 | 59 |
| Borders | 41 | 41 | 100.0% | 2 | 62 | 36 | 60 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 69 | 64 | 92.8% | 0 | 97 | 28 | 61 |
| Fife | 166 | 155 | 93.4% | 0 | 117 | 36 | 58 |
| Lothian | 410 | 392 | 95.6% | 0 | 223 | 36 | 59 |
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| WOSCAN | 1,065 | 1,020 | 95.8% | 0 | 284 | 36 | 60 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 164 | 158 | 96.3% | 2 | 134 | 38 | 60 |
| Forth Valley | 133 | 130 | 97.7% | 1 | 152 | 32 | 58 |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 554 | 528 | 95.3% | 0 | 129 | 37 | 59 |
| Lanarkshire | 214 | 204 | 95.3% | 0 | 284 | 35 | 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.