HC Deb 14 March 1978 vol 946 cc150-9W
Mr. MacGregor

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a list of the area health authority districts in England, showing the number of people on each of their waiting lists at the latest convenient date, and the capital and current expenditure, respectively, for each for 1977–78 shown on a per capita basis.

Mr. Moyle,

pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 28th February 1978; Vol. 945, c. 202], gave the following information:

The number of patients on in-patient waiting lists at 30th September 1977 is shown in the table below. The considerable range in rate per 1,000 population is mainly a result of uneven distribution of hospitals compared with population.

Number on in-patient waiting list Rate per 1,000 population
Northern Regional Health Authority
Health District
Hartlepool … … … 1,630 16.79
North Tees … … … 1,159 7.01
South Tees … … … 4,741 15.52
East Cumbria … … … 2,198 9.41
South West Cumbria … … … 829 7.78
West Cumbria … … … 960 7.19
Darlington … … … 2162 17.90
Durham … … … 1,303 5.34
North West Durham … … … 1,282 14.18
South West Durham … … … 915 5.90
Northumberland … … … 1,367 4.76
Gateshead … … … 1,775 8.00
Newcastle upon Tyne … … … 8,360 28.26
North Tyneside … … … 1,019 5.03
South Tyneside … … … 567 3.40
Sunderland … … … 3,392 11.47
Yorkshire Regional Health Authority
Health District
Hull … … … 5,095 19.07
Beverley … … … 1,317 5.73
Grimsby … … … 2,183 13.28
Scunthorpe … … … 2,006 10.72
Northallerton … … … 496 4.59
York … … … 2,780 11.82
Scarborough … … … 1,030 7.40
Harrogate … … … 1,976 15.88
Bradford … … … 2,951 8.64
Airedale … … … 1,122 6.86
Calderdale … … … 2,400 12.62
Huddersfield … … … 2,269 10.75
Dewsbury … … … 770 4.77
Western Leeds … … … 4,062 10.83
Eastern Leeds … … … 2,996 8.11
Western Wakefield … … … 1,863 13.91
Eastern Wakefield … … … 1,549 8.97
Trent Regional Health Authority
Health District
Central Derbyshire … … … 969 4.21
North Derbyshire … … … 2,546 7.23
South Derbyshire … … … 3,766 13.60
East Leicestershire … … … 3,262 12.85
North West Leicestershire … … … 957 3.60
South West Leicestershire … … … 3,441 10.80
Lincolnshire South … … … 5,165 19.15
Lincolnshire North … … … 4,357 17.10
Mansfield and Newark … … … 4,199 15.19
Worksop and Retford … … … 1,221 12.17
North Nottingham … … … 3,239 14.38
South Nottingham … … … 2,436 6.49
Barnsley … … … 2,622 11.68
Doncaster … … … 3,731 13.02
Rotherham … … … 2,013 8.07
Northern Sheffield … … … 1,272 5.87
Central Sheffield … … … 4,793 23.35
Southern Sheffield … … … 2,165 15.93
East Anglia Regional Health Authority
Health District
Cambridge … … … 3,742 10.56
Peterborough … … … 2,399 13.47
Norwich … … … 6,467 15.23
Great Yarmouth and Waveney … … … 3,877 21.82
King's Lynn … … … 2,747 16.18
Bury St. Edmunds … … … 1,225 6.20
Ipswich … … … 1,951 6.49

Number on in-patient waiting list Rate per 1,000 population
North West Thames Regional Health Authority
Health District
Northern Bedfordshire 1,521 6.67
Southern Bedfordshire 2,805 10.63
Area Management 46 —
North Hertfordshire 2,512 14.18
East Hertfordshire 1,513 6.75
North West Hertfordshire 2,394 9.74
South West Hertfordshire 2,691 14.11
Area Management — —
Barnet/Finchley 2,021 9.02
Edgware/Hendon 1,315 7.36
Brent 1,717 8.57
Harrow 943 4.43
Area Management 23 —
Hounslow 2,593 14.05
South Hammersmith 2,628 16.03
North Hammersmith 2,040 19.03
Ealing 1,342 6.33
Hillingdon 7,298 31.62
North West Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 1,897 11.73
North East Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 1,795 23.10
South Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 2,537 15.57
North East Thames Regional Health Authority
Health District
Basildon and Thurrock 5,020 18.63
Chelmsford 2,249 6.99
Colchester 3,030 11.17
Harlow 2,732 10.84
Southend 2,178 6.99
Barking 3,303 21.48
Havering 859 3.59
North Camden 1,054 10.05
South Camden 5,894 72.86
Islington 1,287 5.31
City and Hackney 3,916 19.65
Newham 1,386 6.06
Tower Hamlets 4 603 31.51
Enfield 2,618 11.45
Haringey 1,754 7.39
East Roding 988 5.75
West Roding 3,619 12.77
South East Thames Regional Health Authority
Health District
Brighton 4,125 13.65
Eastbourne 1,733 8.54
Hastings 2,853 18.97
South East Kent 2,616 10.44
Canterbury/Thanet 3,197 11.57
Dartford/Gravesham 2,814 12.88
Maidstone 2,392 13.16
Medway 1,949 6.05
Tunbridge Wells 6,674 33.54
Bexley 667 3.12
Greenwich 1,470 7.09
Bromley 1,432 4.79
St. Thomas 3,866 20.38
Kings 2,276 9.74
Guys 4,345 30.01
Lewisham 1,389 7.53

Number on in-patient waiting list Rate per 1,000 population
South West Thames Regional Health Authority
Health District
North Surrey … 784 5.77
North West Surrey … 2,237 10.97
West Surrey and North East Hampshire … 2,650 10.35
South West Surrey … 2 720 14.97
Mid Surrey … 1,074 6.45
East Surrey … 1,136 6.09
Chichester … 1,332 8.54
Cuckfield and Crawley … 2 036 8.45
Worthing … 2,424 10.70
Croydon … 2,355 7.12
Kingston/Richmond … 2,773 11.40
Roehampton … 2,676 24.78
Wands worth and East Merton … 3,433 13.42
Sutton and West Merton … 2,949 11.52
Wessex Regional Health Authority
Health District
East Dorset … 4,566 11.63
West Dorset … 2,075 11.33
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire … 6,224 11.88
Southampton and South West Hampshire … 4,973 12.66
Winchester … 2,504 12.99
Basingstoke and North Hampshire … 2,201 11.63
Salisbury … 3,231 25.50
Swindon … 1,294 6.16
Bath … 4 381 11.87
Isle of Wight … 1,084 9.74
Oxford Regional Health Authority
Health District
Regional Management
East Berkshire … 7,340 21.77
West Berkshire … 2,602 6.44
Aylesbury … 5,070 24.29
High Wycombe … 904 3.40
Kettering … 3,966 15.97
Northampton … 4,360 16.93
Oxfordshire … 7,238 14.57
South Western Regional Health Authority
Health District
Bristol … 7,416 27.63
Frenchay … 5,709 27.69
Southmead … 1,515 7.02
Weston … 704 6.82
Cornwall … 4,096 10.06
Exeter and Mid-Devon … 3,473 12.35
North Devon … 1,310 10.89
Plymouth … 5,590 17.21
Torbay … 3,190 14.80
Cheltenham … 2,763 13.75
Gloucester … 5,431 18.70
West Somerset … 3,293 12.35
East Somerset … 1,687 18.18
West Midlands Regional Health Authority
Health District
Hereford … 2,185 15.23
Bromsgrove and Redditch … 1,249 9.53
Kidderminster … 663 6.55
Worcester … 1,660 7.60
Salop … 5,345 14.89
Mid Staffordshire … 2,384 8.26
North Staffordshire … 7,682 16.30
South East Staffordshire … 1,258 5.29
North Warwickshire … 1,966 11.54
Rugby … 763 8.72

Number on in-patient waiting list Rate per 1,000 population
West Midlands Regional Health Authority
Health District
South Warwickshire 3,149 14.77
Central Birmingham 6,691 25.73
East Birmineharo 3,488 21.56
North Birmingham 3,827 22.28
South Birmingham 5,827 23.62
West Birmingham 5,124 23.45
Coventry 4,180 12.41
Dudley 5,577 18.58
Sandwell 2,125 6.79
Solihull 1,650 8.27
Walsall 4,077 15.18
Wolverhampton 3,162 11.87
Mersey Regional Health Authority
Health District
Chester 1,990 10.86
Crewe 3,558 14.70
Halton — —
Macclesfield 2,345 13.52
Warrington 2,149 12.81
Central Southern Liverpool 5,637 25.20
Eastern Liverpool 2,518 12.63
Area Management
St. Helens with Knowsley 2,561 6.67
Northern Sefton 1,801 16.18
Southern Sefton 3,692 11.86
Northern Wirral 1,531 7.44
Southern Wirral 1,021 6.34
North Western Regional Health Authority
Health District
Lancaster 1,841 14.58
Blackpool 3,645 11.34
Preston 5,794 18.92
Blackburn 4,929 17.85
Burnley 4,003 16.71
Ormskirk and Skelmersdale 2,492 23.55
Bolton 3,830 14.67
Bury 1,161 6.41
North Manchester 4,146 24.90
Central Manchester 5,507 39.42
South Manchester 5,217 28.38
Oldham 2,852 12.54
Rochdale 2,540 12.08
Salford 3,814 14.61
Stockport 4,876 16.65
Tameside 2,498 9.98
Trafford 1,835 8.07
Wigan 3,580 11.52
London Postgraduate Hoards of Governors
Health District
The Hospital for Sick Children 1,921 —
National Hospital for Nervous Diseases 303 —
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital 1,632 —
Moorfields Eve Hospital 1,117 —
Maudsley Hospital 74 —
St. Johns Hospital for Diseases of the Skin 48 —
National Heart and Chest Hospitals 938 —
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals 1,024 —
St. Peter's Hospital Group 422 —
Royal Marsden Hospital 127 —
Queen Charlotte's Hospital for Women 329 —
Eastman Dental — —