Census information on NHSScotland performanceagainst the Executive’s maximum waiting times targets for angiography,angioplasty and coronary artery bypass graft surgery has only been collectedsince 2002.Waiting times for cancertreatments equivalent to the waiting times for the other specified proceduresare not available from routinely collected hospital data, as completeinformation is not captured on all treatment types, such as hormonal therapyand chemotherapy, and not all cancer treatments require a hospital admission.Information on cancerwaiting times is currently gathered through cancer audit systems in order tomeasure the target that “by December 2005 the maximum wait from urgent referralto treatment for all cancers will be two months” from Cancer in Scotland...