Cardiac Referral to Treatment Times –Details of Return

* If the count is zero for a month wait time band, a row for that week’s wait’s data need not be submitted.

The number of patients waiting each number of weeks is entered in the ‘count’ field.

The Business Service Centres will provide data sets to Health Statistics & Analysis Unit, WAG by the last working day of the month after the reporting period. To enable the BSC to meet this timetable, Local Health Boards /Trusts should submit data to the BSC local office no later than 20 days after the end of the reporting period.

Return Details for Local Health Boards/ Trusts:

All files should be sent in the form of a comma separated text file (csv format) to the BSC by the 20th day of the month and e-mailed to:

Files should be named as: CRTTxxxmmmyy.csv

Where:

xxx = the Local Health Board/ Trust Code

mmm = first three letters of the month to which the data relates

yy = last two digits of the year

Return Details for the Business Service Centres:

All files should be sent in the form of a comma separated text file (csv format) to HSA by the 25th day of the month and e-mailed to: stats.health@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Files should be names as: CRTTxxmmyy.csv

Where:

xx = the last two numbers of the BSC code

mmm = first three letters of the month to which the data relates

yy = last two digits of the year