§ Rev. William McCreaasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the waiting lists for all hospitals in the Mid-Ulster area for each of the five previous years, and distinguish between urgent and non-urgent cases.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe information is as follows:
Mid-Ulster Tyrone County Inpatients 1979 146 1,068 1980 166 1,193 1981 133 781 1982 96 756 1983 115 1,012 Outpatients*† 1981 701 1,364 1982 724 1,247 1983 928 1,626 * Waiting first appointment. † Information on outpatients were first collected in 1981. No patients were recorded as waiting for admission or for first appointments as outpatients at Derg Valley, Omagh General and Strabane hospitals in the past 5 years.
338Wconstituency on (a) improvement grants, (b) insulation grant, (c) repair grants and (d) intermediate grants in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThis is a matter for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, but I understand from the chairman that the information is as follows:
Information on waiting lists for psychiatric hospitals is not collected routinely and is not available for Tyrone and Fermanagh hospital.
It is not possible to distinguish between urgent and non-urgent cases.