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<p>Referral to treatment waiting times data, which measure waiting times from referral
to the start of consultant-led treatment for non-urgent conditions, does not distinguish
between patients waiting for surgery and patients waiting for other types of consultant-led
treatment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At the end of July 2015 there were 232,424
people waiting more than 18 weeks to start consultant led treatment compared to 209,411
in May 2010, an increase of 23,013 people. The main driver for this increase is the
growth in demand for elective care over the period due to a range of demographic and
other factors such as technological changes in the provision of care. However, the
number of people waiting more than 18 weeks as a proportion of the total number of
people waiting to start consultant-led treatment is lower in July 2015 than in May
2010, 7.1% of the total waiting list compared to 8.1% in May 2010.</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>The average median waiting times for all patients who started treatment
and that involved an admission during July 2015 was 9.1 weeks compared to 8.4 weeks
in May 2010. The time waited for those patients who had waited more than 18 weeks
to start treatment is not separately identified.</p><p> </p>
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