HC Deb 26 October 1987 vol 121 c134W
Mr. Nicholas Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by health district the number of gynaecological operations waiting to he performed.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

The 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