| 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 3: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During October-December 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 | 107 | 94 | 87.9% | 0 | 152 | 48 | 68 |
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| NOSCAN | 21 | 20 | 95.2% | 1 | 74 | 41 | 61 |
| Grampian | 10 | 9 | 90.0% | 1 | 74 | 35 | 72 |
| Highland | 6 | 6 | 100.0% | 5 | 61 | 33 | 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 | 5 | 5 | 100.0% | 36 | 60 | 56 | n/a |
| Western Isles | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 26 | 20 | 76.9% | 0 | 83 | 56 | 71 |
| Borders | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 21 | 40 | n/a | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a |
| Fife | 8 | 6 | 75.0% | 36 | 70 | 53 | n/a |
| Lothian | 15 | 11 | 73.3% | 35 | 83 | 58 | 77 |
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| WOSCAN | 60 | 54 | 90.0% | 2 | 152 | 46 | 67 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 6 | 4 | 66.7% | 41 | 134 | 61 | n/a |
| Forth Valley | 4 | 3 | 75.0% | 56 | 152 | 62 | n/a |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 34 | 31 | 91.2% | 2 | 80 | 43 | 65 |
| Lanarkshire | 16 | 16 | 100.0% | 14 | 62 | 46 | 62 |
# 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.