| 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 6: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During October-December 2008 with Melanoma 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 | 112 | 101 | 90.2% | 0 | 216 | 30 | 71 |
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| NOSCAN | 32 | 30 | 93.8% | 0 | 127 | 34 | 58 |
| Grampian | 17 | 15 | 88.2% | 0 | 127 | 36 | 85 |
| Highland | 6 | 6 | 100.0% | 0 | 36 | 13 | 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 | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 0 | 48 | 31 | n/a |
| Western Isles | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 29 | 29 | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 33 | 26 | 78.8% | 0 | 216 | 28 | 154 |
| Borders | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 2 | 2 | 100.0% | 1 | 30 | n/a | n/a |
| Fife | 7 | 6 | 85.7% | 0 | 117 | 23 | n/a |
| Lothian | 24 | 18 | 75.0% | 14 | 216 | 28 | 197 |
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| WOSCAN | 47 | 45 | 95.7% | 0 | 147 | 26 | 55 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 14 | 40 | 14 | n/a |
| Forth Valley | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 7 | 46 | 27 | n/a |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 22 | 21 | 95.5% | 4 | 109 | 24 | 57 |
| Lanarkshire | 14 | 13 | 92.9% | 0 | 147 | 38 | 102 |
# 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.