| 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 12: Waiting-Times Statistics for Urgent Referral to Treatment by Health Board of Diagnosis for Patients Diagnosed During 2008 with Acute Leukaemia
| Area of diagnosis | Number of eligible urgent referrals# | Number treated within 1 month (31 days) of urgent referral | Proportion treated within 31 days of urgent referral | Minimum wait (Days) | Maximum wait (Days) | Median wait* (Days) | 90th Percentile** (Days) |
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| Scotland | 153 | 151 | 98.7% | 0 | 66 | 5 | 17 |
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| NOSCAN | 44 | 43 | 97.7% | 0 | 36 | 6 | 19 |
| Grampian | 23 | 23 | 100.0% | 0 | 15 | 3 | 14 |
| Highland | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | 7 | 25 | 14 | 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 | 17 | 16 | 94.1% | 0 | 36 | 6 | 25 |
| Western Isles | - | - | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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| SCAN | 39 | 39 | 100.0% | 0 | 27 | 4 | 25 |
| Borders | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 2 | 27 | 7 | n/a |
| Dumfries & Galloway | 3 | 3 | 100.0% | 1 | 10 | 6 | n/a |
| Fife | 14 | 14 | 100.0% | 0 | 10 | 2 | 9 |
| Lothian | 19 | 19 | 100.0% | 1 | 26 | 5 | 26 |
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| WOSCAN | 70 | 69 | 98.6% | 0 | 66 | 6 | 15 |
| Ayrshire & Arran | 16 | 16 | 100.0% | 1 | 13 | 8 | 12 |
| Forth Valley | 14 | 13 | 92.9% | 1 | 66 | 8 | 42 |
| Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 30 | 30 | 100.0% | 1 | 29 | 7 | 19 |
| Lanarkshire | 10 | 10 | 100.0% | 0 | 8 | 4 | 8 |
# 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 year on year performance.