Whether it will detail the average waiting times for triple by-pass operations broken down by health board.

The information requested is set out in the table.We are currently working with the NHS in Scotland to establish national maximum waiting times, to be delivered from March 2001, in the clinical priorities of heart disease, cancer and mental health.Median Waiting Times1 For Triple By-Pass2 Surgery For Patients Routinely Admitted From The Waiting List3 During The Year Ending 31 December 1999pHealth Board | Median Wait (Days)
Argyll and Clyde | 220
Ayrshire and Arran | 114
Borders | 182
Dumfries and Galloway | 289
Fife | 57
Forth Valley | 106
Grampian | 105
Greater Glasgow | 154
Highland | 132
Lanarkshire | 256
Lothian | 129
Tayside | 157
Scotland | 185
Source: ISD Scotlandp Provisional. Notes:1. The table does not show the median wait were fewer than three patients in a health board area had a triple by-pass operation during 1999. This applies to Orkney (Nil), Shetland (two patients) and Western Isles (one patient).2. Triple by-pass operations are defined as OPCS4 K40.3, K41.3, K42.3, K43.3 or K44 as main procedures (K44 will include operations other than triple by-pass operations, but many triple by-pass operations may have been coded thus due to lack of detail in case notes).3. Relates only to NHS patients routinely admitted from the Waiting List. Admissions via transfer are excluded.