Cancer treatment waiting times across Ayrshire ‘reveal a system that is suffering’, says an MSP.
Figures from the Public Health Scotland’s quarterly release flagged that between January 1 and March 31, 77.3 percent of Ayrshire patients began receiving treatment within the required 62-day standard — almost 18 percent below the 95 percent government-set target.
The 62-day standard, which was only met by NHS Borders, states that 95 percent of eligible patients should wait a maximum of 62 days from urgent suspicion of cancer referral to first cancer treatment.
