FoI Number
2025-268
Subject
Cancer Treatment Waiting Lists
Date Received
16/07/2025
Request and Response
  1. The total number of patients who have been removed from cancer treatment waiting lists by your health board in the 2024 calendar year and the first 6 months of 2025 (January to present date of 16 July 2025).

In line with Scottish Cancer Waiting Times, please see below figures who have been removed from cancer tracking:

2024: 940 patients were removed from cancer tracking as non-cancer patients & 63 patients were removed from cancer tracking following a 1st cancer treatment.

2025: 548 patients have been removed from cancer tracking as non-cancer patients & 50 patients have been removed from tracking following a 1st cancer treatment.