The information is not available in the format requested.
Data on the time patients are waiting for cancer treatment is not collected centrally.
Information is collected on performance against the cancer waiting times standards of a maximum wait of 31 days from diagnosis to first cancer treatment and a maximum wait of 62 days from urgent referral to first cancer treatment, which were introduced for all cancer patients from December 2005. Data giving performance against these standards for the period July to September 2006 shows that patients at the City Hospitals Sunderland National Health Service Foundation Trust achieved 99.4 per cent. and 96.7 per cent. respectively.
More detailed information and historic statistics for these standards and the cancer two week wait has been placed in the Library and are available online at:
www.performance.doh.gov.uk/cancerwaits/
Cardiology waiting times at the City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust have been set out in the table shown.
Month Total waiting Number waiting over 13 weeks Percentage of total waiting list waiting over 13 weeks Number waiting over 26 weeks Percentage of total waiting list waiting over 26 weeks 1997 March 6 0 0 0 0 1998 March 1 0 0 0 0 1999 March 10 6 60 2 20.0 2000 March 44 4 9.1 1 2.3 2001 March 85 9 10.6 0 0 2002 March 105 12 11.4 1 1.0 2003 March 78 7 9.0 0 0 2004 March 90 2 2.2 0 0 2005 March 42 1 2.4 0 0 2006 March 184 34 18.5 0 0 2006 December 205 11 5.4 0 0 Source: Department of Health, KH07