Cancer in Scotland: Action for Change set a target that "by 2005, the maximum wait from urgent referral to treatment for all cancers will be two months".
Urological - period of diagnosis: 1 July to 30 September 2005
(Urological cancers include prostate, bladder, penis, testis, other unspecified male genitalia, kidney, renal pelvis, ureter and other unspecified urinary organs)
Area of diagnosis | Number of eligible GP urgent referrals* | Number treated within 2 months (62 days) of referral | % compliance with 2 month urgent referral to treatment target | Minimum (Days) | Maximum (Days) | Median (Days) | 90th Percentile (Days) | 95th Percentile (Days) |
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Scotland | 149 | 96 | 64.4% | 1 | 201 | 44 | 116 | 159 |
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NOSCAN | 46 | 34 | 73.9% | 1 | 201 | 34 | 126 | 176 |
Grampian | 18 | 14 | 77.8% | 1 | 180 | 18 | 167 | n/a |
Highland | 10 | 6 | 60.0% | 2 | 201 | 56 | n/a | n/a |
Orkney | 1 | 1 | 100.0% | 4 | 4 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Shetland | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Tayside | 17 | 13 | 76.5% | 2 | 146 | 43 | 112 | n/a |
Western Isles | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
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SCAN | 48 | 31 | 64.6% | 2 | 180 | 42 | 115 | 132 |
Borders | 6 | 5 | 83.3% | 4 | 106 | 37 | n/a | n/a |
Dumfries & Galloway | 5 | 1 | 20.0% | 32 | 88 | 70 | n/a | n/a |
Fife | 13 | 9 | 69.2% | 8 | 138 | 38 | 129 | n/a |
Lothian | 24 | 16 | 66.7% | 2 | 180 | 42 | 120 | 169 |
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WOSCAN | 55 | 31 | 56.4% | 1 | 196 | 48 | 143 | 162 |
Argyll & Clyde 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Ayrshire & Arran | 21 | 17 | 81.0% | 3 | 113 | 45 | 104 | 112 |
Forth Valley 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Lanarkshire 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Greater Glasgow | 34 | 14 | 41.2% | 1 | 196 | 70 | 160 | 180 |
*Exclusion categories are: died prior to receiving treatment, refused treatment, patient induced non-clinical delay and co-morbidities
n/a: Not applicable due to small numbers
1 Unable to provide comparable data for inclusion in this report