This includes patients with an ASC.New out-patient waiting listswere not collected centrally until 30 September 2004.Rates are based on General RegisterOffice for Scotland population estimates and projections.The figures above should be regardedas indicative due to the characteristics of the data on which they are based:In-patient/day case and new out-patientfigures are derived from the monthly waiting list censuses (SMR3 and OPWL respectively).Both data sets have issues ofunder-recording – (a) not all patients waiting on the census date...