| Description | Statistics relating to the waiting times of urgently referred patients diagnosed with cancer during January-March 2009. Also 2008 cancer waiting times statisics for breast cancer, acute leukaemia and childhood cancers |
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| ISBN | (Web Only) |
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| Official Print Publication Date | |
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| Website Publication Date | August 18, 2009 |
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Table 11: Waiting-Times Statistics for Diagnosis to Treatment by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During 2008 with Breast Cancer
| Area of diagnosis | Number of Eligible Referrals# | Number treated within 1 month (31 Days) of diagnosis | Proportion treated within 31 days of diagnosis | Minimum Wait (Days) | Maximum Wait (Days) | Median Wait (Days)* | 90th percentile (Days)** |
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| Scotland | 3,841 | 3,189 | 83.0% | 0 | 129 | 21 | 36 |
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| NOSCAN | 998 | 657 | 65.8% | 0 | 100 | 27 | 44 |
| Grampian | 363 | 198 | 54.5% | 0 | 78 | 30 | 49 |
| Highland | 215 | 169 | 78.6% | 0 | 59 | 24 | 39 |
| Orkney | 8 | 7 | 87.5% | 10 | 36 | 24 | n/a |
| Shetland | 8 | 8 | 100.0% | 3 | 31 | 19 | n/a |
| Tayside | 393 | 268 | 68.2% | 0 | 100 | 26 | 42 |
| Western Isles | 11 | 7 | 63.6% | 0 | 48 | 30 | 48 |
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| SCAN | 1,065 | 961 | 90.2% | 0 | 95 | 21 | 31 |
| Borders | 81 | 80 | 98.8% | 0 | 32 | 17 | 27 |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 103 | 102 | 99.0% | 0 | 30 | 12 | 22 |
| Fife | 161 | 137 | 85.1% | 0 | 64 | 22 | 36 |
| Lothian | 720 | 642 | 89.2% | 0 | 95 | 22 | 33 |
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| WOSCAN | 1,778 | 1,571 | 88.4% | 0 | 129 | 19 | 33 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 298 | 269 | 90.3% | 0 | 67 | 15 | 30 |
| Forth Valley | 126 | 118 | 93.7% | 0 | 44 | 16 | 28 |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 1,047 | 913 | 87.2% | 0 | 129 | 20 | 34 |
| Lanarkshire | 307 | 271 | 88.3% | 0 | 65 | 16 | 35 |
# 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.
n/a: Not applicable due to small numbers.
Dumfries and Galloway includes one patient where date of first treatment is not recorded.
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 year on year performance.