Urgent referrals to breast clinic

Summary

The requester asked for monthly statistics on urgent breast clinic referrals and average waiting times for the 12 months prior to May 2021. Manx Care disclosed the complete dataset covering May 2020 to April 2021, including a total of 232 referrals and an overall average wait time of 26 days.

Key Facts

• The data covers urgent breast surgery referrals from May 2020 to April 2021.
• A total of 232 urgent referrals were recorded during this 12-month period.
• The overall average waiting time for these referrals was 26 days.
• The highest number of referrals in a single month was 28 in March 2021.
• The longest average wait time in a single month was 41 days in November 2020.

Data Disclosed

• 232
• 26
• May 2020
• April 2021
• 10
• 21
• 18
• 12
• 11
• 19
• 12
• 17
• 23
• 20
• 26
• 24
• 26
• 41
• 25
• 38
• 16
• 21
• 16
• 22
• 28
• 26
• 21
• 33
• 9th June 2021
• 7 May 2021
• 10 June 2021
• 1782317

Original Request

Please could you provide me with the following information, Number of urgent referrals to breast clinic each month for the past 12 months,along with the average waiting time per referral for each month.

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

Manx Care Noble’s Hospital, Strang Braddan, Isle of Man IM4 4R (01624) 650 000

Our ref: 1782317 10 June 2021

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 7 May 2021 and which states:

"Please could you provide me with the following information, Number of urgent referrals to breast clinic each month for the past 12 months, along with the average waiting time per referral for each month."

Our response to your request is as follows: I have detailed below the information that is being released to you. Year Month Number of Urgent referrals Average wait time (days) 2020 May 10 21 2020 June 18 12 2020 July 11 19 2020 August 12 17 2020 September 23 20 2020 October 26 24 2020 November 26 41 2020 December 25 38 2021 January 16 21 2021 February 16 22 2021 March 28 26 2021 April 21 33 TOTAL 232 26 Urgent Breast Surgery The reporting looks at each urgent Breast surgery referral received between May 2020 and April 2021 and: 1. Excludes cancelled referrals and re-directed referrals 2. Calculates the time between the referral being received and either a) the first attended appointment or b) if there is no attended appointment and the referral has been closed then the date the referral has been closed or

c) for those that have not been seen yet and the referral is not closed then current date, 9th June 2021

Please quote the reference number 1782317 in any future communications.

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