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NHS Wales Referral to Treatment Time quality report

This report covers the general principles and processes leading up to the production of our statistics.

NHS Wales Diagnostic and Therapy Services Waiting Times Quality Report

This report covers the general principles and processes leading up to the production of our statistics.

NHS Cancer Waiting Times Quality Report

This report covers the general principles and processes leading up to the production of our statistics.

Time spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency departments, quality report

This report covers the general principles and processes leading up to the production of our statistics.

Waiting lists are reported by Local Health Boards in Wales and detail all those people resident in Wales who are waiting for NHS-funded hospital treatment and how long they have been waiting.

The main focus of the NHS in Wales is on Referral to Treatment Times. This is the total time waited from referral by a GP or other medical practitioner for hospital treatment in the NHS in Wales and includes time spent waiting for outpatient appointments, diagnostic tests, therapy services and inpatient or day-case admissions.

Statistical headlines, releases and bulletins

Referral to treatment times, March 2013

NHS diagnostic and therapy services waiting times, At end March 2013

NHS cancer waiting times, quarter ending March 2013

Time spent in NHS Accident and Emergency departments, April 2013
For the August 2012 data onwards, there will be a new approach to publishing the emergency departments waiting times data. Rather than Welsh Government publishing the data in a Statistical Release or on StatsWales, the monthly data will be published by NHS Wales Informatics Service (external link) as management information, around the 15th day of each month. For more details, see the July 2012 release and the Time spent in NHS Wales Accident and Emergency departments quality report.

Datasets

Detailed datasets are available on the StatsWales website.

StatsWales website: Referral to treatment times (external link)

StatsWales website: Diagnostic and therapy services (external link)

StatsWales website: Cancer waiting times (external link)

StatsWales website: Accident and emergency (external link)

Frequently asked questions

Waiting Times for NHS Services

Further information

Technical changes to Referral to Treatment (RTT) rules with effect from October 2010

If you are unable to find the exact information required please Email stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk.