§ Mr. Cartwrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many patients were awaiting operations in each of the main surgical specialties at each of the hospitals in the Greenwich and Bexley area at the most recent convenient date.
§ Mr. MoyleFollowing are the figures of patients who, at 31 December 1977, were awaiting admission to the surgical specialties in the NHS hospitals in the Greenwich and Bexley area.
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Specialty Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup Erith and District Hospital St. Nicholas's Hospital Plumstead Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital Eltham and Mottingham Hospital Greenwich District Hospital Brook General Hospital Bexley and Welling Hospital Memorial Hospital London S.E.18 General surgery … 147 73 363 25 31 234 109 Nil — Ear, nose and throat … — — — 12 — — 93 — — Traumatic and orthopaedic … … 89 24 15 31 3 59 110 — — Ophthalmology … 216 — — — — 68 — — — Urology … … — — — — — 27 46 Nil — Thoracic surgery … — — — — — — 14 — — Dental surgery … 19 — — 1 — 19 — — — Neurosurgery … — — — — — — 20 — — Gynaecology … 27 1 110 — — 99 — — Nil Total … 498 98 488 69 34 506 392 Nil Nil Bexley hospital, Bexley maternity hospital, British hospital for mothers and babies and Goldie Leigh hospital, London S.E.2 have no surgical specialties.