It is not possible thereforeto establish exactly how many patients had an ASC applied and to distinguish preciselybetween those patients eligible for waiting times standards and those that are ineligible.For this reason, routinely published waiting times figures are based on all in-patients/daycases regardless of whether they have an ASC code.Census data, provided by NHS boards to ISD Scotland andpublished each quarter, shows the number of patients waiting over specified periodsas at the census date...