§ Mr. Goldingasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the waiting list for admission to hospital in the Macclesfield constituency, broken down by each main category, at the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. AlisonHospital statistics cannot be related directly to constituency boundaries, but patients from the Macclesfield constituency would normally be referred to hospitals of the East Cheshire Hospital Management Committee. The waiting240W list for this group at 31st December, 1970, was as follows :
Specialty Number of patients waiting admission General surgery 1,012 Traumatic and orthopaedic surgery 166 Ear, Nose and Throat 280 Gynaecology 138 Neurosurgery 6 Ophthalmology 6 General Medicine 8 Geriatrics 13 Dentistry 46 Total 1,675