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| The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998 |
| Table 2D9 Trends in waiting times and waiting lists, year ending 31 March, 1991-1997 |
1991 |
1992 |
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
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| Inpatients & day case discharges during year 1 | |||||||
| Number of IP & DC discharges during year | 886,862 |
918,899 |
985,503 |
1,056,464 |
1,102,934 |
1,138,126 |
1,165,715 |
| of which number admitted from WL 2,3 | 363,711 |
378,816 |
414,855 |
448,805 |
470,192 |
463,296 |
479,2574 |
| Median wait (days) 3 | 30 |
31 |
31 |
31 |
32 |
31 |
314 |
| % admitted within 3 months 3 | 81.7 |
80.8 |
80.5 |
80.7 |
80.7 |
81.6 |
81.54 |
| % admitted within 12 months 3 | 98.2 |
98.0 |
97.7 |
97.8 |
98.2 |
98.8 |
99.34 |
| % admitted 12 months or later 3 | 1.8 |
2.0 |
2.3 |
2.2 |
1.9 |
1.2 |
0.74 |
| Patients on waiting list on 31 March | |||||||
| Number waiting 5 | 79,866 |
82,647 |
84,521 |
82,065 |
79,703 |
82,640 |
84,649 |
| % waiting under 3 months | 55.1 |
57.1 |
56.4 |
61.7 |
65.8 |
65.6 |
63.9 |
| % waiting 6 months and over | 27.6 |
25.4 |
24.4 |
18.9 |
14.4 |
13.5 |
14.3 |
| % waiting 12 months and over 6 | 14.0 |
11.7 |
10.0 |
5.1 |
2.0 |
0.8 |
0.7 |
| Number on deferred waiting list | 9,417 |
10,834 |
13,652 |
15,397 |
17,785 |
18,251 |
19,899 |
| New outpatients referred during year 7 | |||||||
| Number of referrals | .. |
.. |
.. |
1,241,569 |
1,305,585 |
1,310,336 |
1,359,1394 |
| of which referrals from GMPs/GDPs 8 | .. |
.. |
.. |
1,007,813 |
1,052,256 |
1,048,487 |
1,090,5294 |
| Median wait (days) | .. |
.. |
.. |
38 |
39 |
40 |
404 |
| % waiting within 9 weeks | .. |
.. |
.. |
70.9 |
70.4 |
69.6 |
69.04 |
| % waiting 9 - 18 weeks | .. |
.. |
.. |
22.1 |
22.3 |
23.3 |
22.64 |
| % waiting 18 weeks and over | .. |
.. |
.. |
7.0 |
7.3 |
7.1 |
8.34 |
| Accident & Emergency surveys 9 | |||||||
| Median wait to see doctor (minutes): | |||||||
| - trolley cases | .. |
.. |
.. |
15 |
18 |
19 |
18 |
| - walking wounded | .. |
.. |
.. |
18 |
20 |
23 |
23 |
Source: ISD Scotland Common Services Agency |
| 1 Inpatient & day case discharges from non-obstetric & non-psychiatric specialties. Also excluded are the specialties of SCBU & geriatric long stay. |
| 2 Admissions from the true waiting list. |
| 3 Due to the phased change in recording from 1 April 1996, information relating to the year ended 31 March 1997 is not strictly comparable with previous years. |
| 4 1997 provisional (where marked). |
| 5 Inpatient and daycase true waiting list, including guarantee exceptions. Excludes repeat and deferred waiting lists. |
| 6 The % waiting 12 months and over is a subset of the % waiting 6 months and over. |
| 7 New referrals to consultant led outpatient clinics to all specialties except accident & emergency and genitourinary medicine. |
| 8 Previous SHS information on waiting times related to all referrals irrespective of source. |
| Information presented here relates only to referrals by GMPs or GDPs which more accurately reflects the "real" waiting experience of patients routinely referred. |
| 9 Information is derived from week-long surveys in 32 Accident & Emergency departments. Figures shown are based on the November 1994, November 1995, June 1996 and March 1997 surveys. |
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