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 "id": "cancer-waits-scotland",
 "title": "Cancer waiting times, Scotland",
 "category": "health",
 "summary": "The share of patients in Scotland starting cancer treatment within 31 days of the decision to treat and within 62 days of an urgent referral with a suspicion of cancer, each quarter since 2012.",
 "unit": "percent",
 "chart": "line",
 "volatile": false,
 "status": "The latest quarter is provisional",
 "notes": [
  "Scotland's standards are 95% within 31 days and within 62 days. England measures 62 days from an urgent referral too, but against a 75% operational standard and its own rules, so the nations' figures are not directly comparable.",
  "Public Health Scotland marks the latest quarter provisional and revises it later."
 ],
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  "licence": "OGL-3.0",
  "licence_name": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
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  "label": "Treated within 62 days of urgent referral",
  "value": 73.6,
  "period": "2026 Q2",
  "note": "provisional"
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     "x": "2012 Q3",
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     "x": "2014 Q3",
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     "x": "2018 Q3",
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    {
     "x": "2018 Q4",
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     "x": "2019 Q1",
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    {
     "x": "2019 Q2",
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     "x": "2019 Q3",
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    {
     "x": "2019 Q4",
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     "x": "2020 Q4",
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     "x": "2021 Q1",
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     "x": "2021 Q2",
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     "x": "2022 Q2",
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     "x": "2024 Q1",
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     "x": "2024 Q2",
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     "x": "2024 Q4",
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     "x": "2025 Q1",
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     "x": "2025 Q2",
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    {
     "x": "2025 Q3",
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    {
     "x": "2025 Q4",
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    {
     "x": "2026 Q1",
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     "x": "2026 Q2",
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     "x": "2013 Q4",
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     "x": "2014 Q2",
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     "x": "2014 Q4",
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     "x": "2015 Q1",
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     "x": "2015 Q2",
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     "x": "2015 Q3",
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    {
     "x": "2015 Q4",
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    {
     "x": "2016 Q1",
     "v": 90.2
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     "x": "2016 Q2",
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    {
     "x": "2016 Q3",
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     "x": "2017 Q2",
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     "x": "2020 Q3",
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     "x": "2021 Q1",
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     "x": "2025 Q1",
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    {
     "x": "2025 Q3",
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     "x": "2025 Q4",
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    {
     "x": "2026 Q1",
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}