HC Deb 11 November 1985 vol 86 cc88-91W
Mrs. Clwyd

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what percentage of patients on orthopaedic waiting lists have to wait for over 12 months for the appropriate inpatient surgical treatment in each of the health authorities in England.

Mr. Whitney

The available information is given in the table.

Orthopaedic in-patient waiting lists on 31 March 1985, NHS hospitals, England Percentage of non-urgent cases on the list for more than one year
Regional and District Health Authority Percentage
Northern RHA
RHA Total 22.7
Hartlepool 25.4
North Tees 4.2
South Tees 22.3
East Cumbria 26.6
South Cumbria 3.9
West Cumbria 16.4
Darlington 33.6
Durham 12.0
North West Durham 30.0
South West Durham 1.4
Northumberland 15.4
Gateshead 4.7
Newcastle upon Tyne 13.7
North Tyneside 13.2
South Tyneside 23.8
Sunderland 55.4
Yorkshire RHA
RHA Total 27.7
Hull 31.2
East Yorkshire 15.8
Grimsby 44.7
Scunthorpe 36.7
Northallerton 11.4
York 12.4
Scarborough 27.9
Harrogate 4.0
Bradford 22.7
Airedale 49.0
Calderdale 5.7
Huddersfield 6.0
Dewsbury 26.8
Leeds Western 44.7
Leeds Eastern 36.7
Wakefield 0.0
Pontefract 12.1

Regional and District Health Authority Percentage
Trent RHA
RHA Total 43.0
North Derbyshire 36.1
South Derbyshire 18.0
Leicestershire 28.5
North Lincolnshire 30.6
South Lincolnshire 47.0
Bassetlaw 21.2
Central Nottinghamshire 57.2
Nottingham 15.0
Barnsley 0.0
Doncaster 35.7
Rotherham 55.1
Sheffield 56.1
East Anglian RHA
RHA Total 40.9
Cambridge 60.9
Peterborough 8.7
West Suffolk 24.6
East Suffolk 37.3
Norwich 47.4
Great Yarmouth 40.4
West Norfolk and Wisbech 16.4
Huntingdon 1.2
North West Thames RHA
RHA Total 25.5
North Bedfordshire 22.0
South Bedfordshire 0.0
North Hertfordshire 40.3
East Hertfordshire 0.0
North West Hertfordshire 13.8
South West Hertfordshire 40.1
Barnet 1.9
Harrow 38.6
Hillingdon 35.6
Hounslow and Spelthorne 52.2
Ealing 57.9
Brent 0.0
Paddington 12.6
Hammersmith and Fulham 39.6
Victoria 10.9
North East Thames RHA
RHA Total 35.6
Basildon and Thurrock 43.1
Mid Essex 22.8
North East Essex 24.8
West Essex 18.9
Southend 18.4
Barking, Havering and Brentwood 50.3
Hampstead 37.9
Bloomsbury 35.1
Islington 32.3
City and Hackney 52.9
Newham 27.0
Tower Hamlets 58.1
Enfield 18.3
Haringey 9.7
Redbridge 28.3
Waltham Forest 32.2
South East Thames RHA
RHA Total 37.1
Brighton 40.3
Eastbourne 25.6
Hastings 25.4
South East Kent 37.0
Canterbury and Thanet 31.2
Dartford and Gravesham 6.5
Maidstone 63.9
Medway 38.1
Tunbridge Wells 41.0
Bexley 15.0
Greenwich 25.5

Regional and District Health Authority Percentage
Bromley 39.9
West Lambeth 70.9
Camberwell 30.1
Lewisham and North Southwark 24.7
South West Thames RHA
RHA Total 27.7
North West Surrey 13.4
West Surrey and North East Hants 49.6
South West Surrey 52.2
Mid Surrey 5.6
East Surrey 0.0
Chichester 36.5
Mid Downs 18.4
Worthing 42.6
Croydon 16.5
Kingston and Esher 33.9
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 20.7
Wandsworth 48.7
Merton and Sutton 0.9
Wessex RHA
RHA Total 37.5
East Dorset 13.8
West Dorset 19.1
Portsmouth 11.7
South West Hants and Southampton 95.0
Winchester 45.5
Basingstoke 39.5
Salisbury 50.6
Swindon 30.4
West Wiltshire and Bath 41.7
Isle of Wight 7.0
Oxford RHA
RHA Total 25.7
East Berkshire 2.0
West Berkshire 0.0
Aylesbury 30.0
Wycombe 0.0
Milton Keynes 0.8
Kettering 60.5
Northampton 54.0
Oxfordshire 10.7
South Western RHA
RHA Total 35.8
Bristol and Weston 42.2
Frenchay 9.5
Southmead 50.0
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 47.9
Exeter 34.4
North Devon 50.0
Plymouth 34.1
Torbay *
Cheltenham 1.1
Gloucester 22.0
Somerset 26.0
Northern Western RHA
RHA Total 37.2
Lancaster 23.5
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 18.6
Preston 54.6
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 19.5
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 42.5
West Lancashire 22.0
Chorley and South Ribble *
Bolton 28.8
Bury 1.1
North Manchester 23.3
Central Manchester 69.5
South Manchester 18.0
Oldham 74.3
Rochdale 30.2
Salford 28.6
Stockport 5.1

Regional and District Health Authority Percentage
Tameside and Glossop 33.1
Trafford 0.0
Wigan 46.7
Special Health Authorities
SHAs Total 4.6
The Hospital For Sick Children 3.3
National Hospitals For Nervous Diseases *
Moorfields Eye Hospital *
Bethlehem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals *
National Heart and Chest Hospitals *
The Royal Marsden Hospital *
Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 5.8
The Eastman Dental Hospital *
ENGLAND TOTAL 34.7
* No orthopaedic waiting list.

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