The numbers have gone from 7,264 patients waiting in March 2006 to 3,031 in March 2014. We now have just over 91 per cent of patients being seen and treated within 18 weeks of first referral at March 2014, compared with only 86 per cent in the quarter ending March 2007, despite a rise in the number of in-patient and day cases of more than 5.9 per cent in 2012-13.