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National Health Service in Scotland: Annual Report 1998-99

 

1a First Outpatient Appointments - Percentage of Patients Whose Appointment Date Was Within 9 Weeks of Referral.
Year Ended 31 March 1999
Health Board Area Comparison

Area of Residence

All Provided

General Surgery

Orthopaedic

ENT Surgery

Ophthalmology

Urology

Oral Surgery

All Areas

65.9

77.2

45.2

52.9

53.4

66.3

54.6

Argyll & Clyde

66.4

91.8

38.8

49.5

62.1

73.1

47.5

Ayrshire & Arran

75.5

93.1

68.7

77.0

40.4

72.4

78.2

Borders

78.9

81.8

62.4

73.9

85.9

44.9

89.8

Dumfries & Galloway

65.4

76.9

43.5

68.1

58.2

88.7

47.3

Fife

59.9

66.6

42.5

44.3

46.2

46.7

45.6

Forth Valley

62.8

70.8

37.1

55.7

66.2

66.8

53.4

Grampian

64.9

66.8

52.2

42.7

68.4

66.2

73.0

Greater Glasgow

62.1

78.4

30.8

48.6

34.4

63.4

59.3

Highland

75.7

88.6

34.8

79.0

80.1

90.4

68.9

Lanarkshire

61.1

70.8

35.1

42.5

40.7

72.3

47.0

Lothian

68.3

72.2

41.3

51.3

55.2

54.6

45.0

Orkney

91.5

98.4

86.0

88.6

91.0

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Shetland

88.9

99.6

67.6

90.7

71.3

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88.1

Tayside

67.6

71.0

71.8

59.3

56.1

70.7

43.1

Western Isles

74.2

98.6

60.3

60.1

85.7

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Area of Residence

General Medicine

Dermatology

Rheumatology

Medical Paediatrics

Gynaecology

Mental Illness

All Areas

73.8

57.5

56.3

77.1

75.9

85.5

Argyll & Clyde

58.1

50.4

61.0

93.2

84.9

85.5

Ayrshire & Arran

64.4

74.4

60.2

93.0

73.2

93.5

Borders

93.9

53.7

27.9

90.2

76.8

99.9

Dumfries & Galloway

80.5

69.1

51.9

56.0

65.9

97.5

Fife

77.7

49.9

70.5

71.4

75.2

86.1

Forth Valley

55.1

35.7

38.8

63.4

77.6

88.7

Grampian

63.1

39.7

91.1

52.5

85.2

93.4

Greater Glasgow

80.1

61.3

43.0

73.4

74.1

83.4

Highland

86.8

49.6

93.8

67.5

67.2

86.6

Lanarkshire

70.8

65.2

35.5

76.1

77.5

62.9

Lothian

95.7

65.3

48.9

90.3

72.4

84.7

Orkney

96.3

82.1

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85.6

96.5

Shetland

99.3

78.6

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96.6

89.9

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Tayside

78.8

42.9

82.1

74.3

72.6

89.2

Western Isles

91.9

26.9

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66.4

73.6

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 The table refers to the length of time people wait from the day the hospital receives a request for an outpatient appointment with a consultant until the day of their appointment.

Any patient whose length of wait is not known or where a Patient’s Charter guarantee exception applies are excluded.

Only referrals from general medical practitioners (GMPs) or general dental practitioners (GDPs) have been included in order to more accurately present information on the "normal" referral pattern experienced by patients. The red and blue colour codes highlight changes in the corresponding figures presented in last year’s Report. Figures shown in blue are at least five percentage points higher than in the previous year, and figures in red are at least five percentage points lower.

An "||" in a cell indicates that the figure has been suppressed as the denominator is less than 100.

 

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