Information on the number of patients for Gloucestershire primary care trust (PCT) who had waited longer than 18 weeks since the PCT’s establishment in October 2006 is provided in the following table.
Month Number of admitted patients treated over 18 weeks Percentage admitted patients treated over 18 weeks Data completeness assessment (percentage) January 2007 1,071 48 n/a February 2007 897 47 n/a March 2007 1,207 51 87 April 2007 909 45 86 May 2007 964 43 87 June 2007 1,068 48 91 n/a = not available. Notes: 1. RTT data were not collected centrally prior to January 2007. 2. Data relate to admitted patients only, i.e. patients whose 18 week pathway ended with an in-patient/day case admission. 3. A data completeness assessment is published alongside the reported RTT figures each month in order to aid interpretation of this relatively new set of data. The measure compares the number of pathways reported against an existing data collection. Nationally, data completeness was at 70 per cent. for June 2007. 4. Data for non-admitted patients (patients whose 18 week pathway did not end with an in-patient/day case admission) have been collected since April 2007 but are not yet published. Source: Monthly RTT data collection (published)