§ Mr. Nicholas Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by health district the number of gynaecological operations waiting to he performed.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe number of persons waiting for in-patient hospital treatment—not necessarily operations—in the specialty of gynaecology is given for each health board at 31 March 1987 in the following table. The figures are provisional.
Number Argyll and Clyde 758 Ayrshire and Arran 591 Borders 27 Dumfries and Galloway 567 Fife 442 Forth Valley 378 Grampian 1,564 Greater Glasgow 1,664 Highland 410 Lanarkshire 394 Lothian 1,208 Orkney 0 Shetland 0 Tayside 192 Western Isles 24 Scotland 8,219