What the current average waiting time is for (a) coronary artery bypass grafts and (b) other cardiac surgery, broken down by NHS board.

Coronary artery bypass grafts and other cardiac surgery are carried out at five NHSScotland hospital sites – Glasgow (two), Aberdeen, Lothian and Clydebank.
The median waiting times for coronary artery bypass grafts and other cardiac surgery, by NHS board of residence, for the year ended 31 December 2004, are provided in the table.
On 31 December 2004, no patient with a guarantee on the in-patient waiting list for coronary artery bypass graft surgery or angioplasty had waited more than 18 weeks for treatment.
NHSscotland: Median Waiting Times1 for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts and Other Cardiac Surgery2, by NHS Board of Residence. Year Ended 31 December 2004P.
NHS Board
| Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts
Median Wait
| Other Cardiac Surgery
Median Wait

Argyll and Clyde
| 86 days
| 85 days

Ayrshire and Arran
| 88 days
| 71 days*

Borders
| 56 days*
| 51 days*

Dumfries and Galloway
| 78 days*
| X

Fife
| 51 days
| 55 days*

Forth Valley
| 74 days
| 98 days*

Grampian
| 96 days
| 123 days*

Greater Glasgow
| 70 days
| 82 days

Highland
| 95 days
| 91 days*

Lanarkshire
| 76 days
| 100 days

Lothian
| 54 days
| 70 days

Orkney
| X
| X

Shetland
| X
| X

Tayside
| 74 days
| 110 days*

Western Isles
| X
| X

Scotland
| 75 days
| 85 days

Source: SMR01, ISD Scotland.
PProvisional.
Notes:
X Figures not shown as the number of discharge records is very small (less than 15) and the presentation of the median is potentially misleading.
*Figures should be treated with caution as they are derived from a possible unrepresentatively small number of discharge records – more than 14 but less than 50.
1. Patients routinely admitted from the in-patient and day case waiting list from home. Includes patients with Availability Status Codes.
2. Cardiac surgery is defined in terms of the Office of Population and Censuses and Surveys Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures 4th revision (OPCS4). The codes used are K25 to K35 or K40 to K46 as main opera