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Cancer Waiting Times October-December 2008

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DescriptionNumber and proportion of urgently referred cancer patients who began treatment within 62 days
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Website Publication DateMay 19, 2009

Table 7: Waiting-Times Statistics by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During October-December 2008 with Ovarian Cancer

Area of diagnosisNumber of eligible urgent referrals#Number treated within 2 months (62 days) of referralProportion treated within 62 days of urgent referralMinimum wait (Days)Maximum wait (Days)Median wait* (Days)90th Percentile** (Days)
Scotland878597.7%01033056
NOSCAN262596.2%01033260
Grampian1414100.0%1613259
Highland6583.3%110342n/a
Orkney--n/an/an/an/an/a
Shetland--n/an/an/an/an/a
Tayside66100.0%05619n/a
Western Isles--n/an/an/an/an/a
SCAN282796.4%4713659
Borders11100.0%3939n/an/a
Dumfries & Galloway22100.0%4359n/an/a
Fife55100.0%104733n/a
Lothian201995.0%4713062
WOSCAN3333100.0%5532644
Ayrshire & Arran88100.0%54021n/a
Forth Valley44100.0%234334n/a
Greater Glasgow & Clyde1818100.0%5532445
Lanarkshire33100.0%224534n/a

# 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.

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