§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide details of the waiting list for each specialty for every hospital on Merseyside.
§ Mr. WhitneyThe number of persons awaiting admission to each specialty at each of the hospitals in the Liverpool, St. Helens and Knowsley, Southport and Formby, South Sefton and Wirral district health authorities is given in the table.
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Number of persons on in-patient waiting lists on 31 December 1985 (provisionsl) District Health Authority, hospital and specialty Total cases Liverpool District Health Authority
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District Health Authority, hospital and specialty Total cases Saint Paul's Eye Hospital Ophthalmology 549 Total 549 Women's Hospital Gynaecology 655 Total 655 Royal Liverpool Hospital General Surgery 619 Ear, nose and throat 313 Traumatic and orthopaedic 622 Urology 584 Oral surgery 195 Gynaecology 331 Pathology 10 Total 2,674 Broadgreen Hospital Cardiology 294 General surgery 894 Traumatic and orthopaedic 286 Urology 211 Thoracic surgery 8 Oral surgery 386 Cardiac surgery 103 Total 2,182 Newsham General Hospital Dermatology 10 Traumatic and orthopaedic 241 Total 251 Mill Road Maternity Hospital Gynaecology 95 Total 95 Alder Hay Children's Hospital Ear, nose and throat 384 Traumatic and orthopaedic 176 Ophthalmology 33 Urology 59 Plastic surgery 260 Oral surgery 38 Psychiatry children 7 Paediatric surgery 416 Paediatric dentistry 31 Total 1,404 Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital Cardiology 187 Traumatic and orthopaedic 10 Oral surgery 55 Paediatric surgery 77 Paediatric dentistry 8 Total 337 St. Helens and Knowsley District Health Authority Whiston Hospital General surgery 247
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District Health Authority, hospital and specialty Total cases Ear, nose and throat 645 Traumatic and orthopaedic 505 Plastic surgery 930 Gynaecology 619 Total 2,946 St. Helens Hospital General surgery 274 Traumatic and orthopaedic 308 Ophthalmology 90 Total 672 Southport and Formby District Health Authority Southport General Hospital General surgery 360 Traumatic and orthopaedic 121 Ophthalmology 304 Gynaecology 313 Total 1,098 Southport Promenade Hospital Geriatrics 6 Spinal Injuries 18 Total 24 Greaves Hall Hospital Mental handicap 4 Psychogeriatric 10 Total 14 South Sefton District Health Authority Walton Hospital Neurology 141 General surgery 486 Ear, nose and throat 745 Traumatic and orthopaedic 398 Ophthalmology 17 Urology 130 Oral surgery 98 Neurosurgery 166 Gynaecology 400 Anaesthetics 52 Gastroenterology 80 Total 2,713 Fazakerley Hospital General surgery 109 Traumatic and orthopaedic 781 Gynaecology 340 Total 1,230 Wirral District Health Authority Arrowe Park Hospital Rheumatology 5 General surgery 391 Ear, nose and throat 798 Traumatic and orthopaedic 25 Ophthalmology 283 Oral surgery 139 Gynaecology 638 Total 2,279
District Health Authority, hospital and specialty Total cases Clatterbridge Hospital General medicine 1 Geriatrics 1 General surgery 432 Traumatic and orthopaedic 345 Radiotherapy 112 Total 891