§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report the numbers on the waiting list for renal dialysis in (a) the Greater Glasgow health board area, (b) the west of Scotland and (c) Scotland.
§ Mr. John MacKayAll patients referred for treatment for end-stage renal failure who are considered likely to benefit from renal dialysis are receiving appropriate treatment and there are no waiting lists.
§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the total expenditure on hospital-based renal treatment in (a) the Greater Glasgow health board area and (b) Scotland in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. John MacKayThis information is not collected centrally. The hon. Member may wish to write to the health boards which provide renal treatment—Greater Glasgow, Lothian, Tayside, Grampian and Highland.
§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report (i) the number of beds and (ii) the number of nurses allocated to renal dialysis units in hospitals in (a) the Greater Glasgow health board area, (b) the west of Scotland and (c) Scotland, in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. John MacKayThis information is not available centrally. The hon. Member may wish to approach the health boards which provide renal treatment for information on these points.
§ Mr. McTaggartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what have been the numbers of renal transplant operations carried out in (a) the Greater Glasgow health board area, (b) the west of Scotland and (c) Scotland in each of the past five years for which figures are available;
(2) if he will publish in the Official Report the number of renal patients on (a) hospital dialysis, (b) home dialysis, and (c) peritoneal dialysis in (i) the Greater Glasgow health board area, (ii) the west of Scotland and (iii) Scotland, in each of the last five years for which figures are available;
(3) what has been the annual acceptance rate per million of the total population of new renal patients for treatment in the following areas, in each of the past five years for which figures are available: (a) the Greater Glasgow health board area, (b) the west of Scotland and (c) Scotland.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe services provided by Greater Glasgow health board for the treatment of end-stage renal failure cover, as well as its own area, the areas of Argyll and Clyde, Ayrshire and Arran, Dumfries and Galloway, Forth Valley (part), Lanarkshire and the Western Isles health board. The relevant statistics for the whole of the West of Scotland, so far as these are available centrally, are included in the figures for Greater Glasgow given in the accompanying table.
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1979 1980 1981 1982 *1983. *1984 Transplant operations (a) Greater Glasgow 33 47 44 54 65 86 (b) Scotland 59 90 70 104 132 142 Patients on hospital dialysis (a) Greater Glasgow 85 80 80 84 124 91 (b) Scotland 159 152 163 177 212 n.y.a. Patients on home dialysis (a) Greater Glasgow 79 72 74 83 96 118 (b) Scotland 203 194 186 184 179 n.y.a. Patients on peritoneal dialysis (a) Greater Glasgow not 52 56 66 88 154 (b) Scotland available 75 99 151 187 n.y.a. Acceptance rate of new renal patients per million of the population (a) Greater Glasgow 10.7 21.1 25.3 30.8 36.9 n.y.a. (b) Scotland 9.1 22.9 22.8 31.0 41.2 n.y.a. * Provisional. n.y.a. = not yet available.