46. Mr. Evenettasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the average waiting time for non-urgent surgery in the south-east Thames region.
§ Mr. NewtonI am sorry I cannot give my hon. Friend the information he seeks in precisely the form requested. The estimated median interval between the date a patient was placed on the waiting list and admission as an inpatient to a surgical department of a NHS hospital in the South-East Thames regional health authority area during 1985, the latest year for which information is available centrally, was eight weeks.