Additional records received later will be includedin future routine analyses and updates of the website. The figures for the quarterended 31 December 2005 are therefore provisional, as the web pages make clear.Theinformation includes patients with an Availability Status Codes (ASC) – whichrecords circumstances where the waiting time guarantee does not apply (for example,where the patient had asked to postpone their admission at some point after theywere added to the waiting list, where at some point they were medically unfit fora planned procedure, or where they had failed to attend for their treatment).