HC Deb 31 October 1988 vol 139 cc486-7W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give, for every December since 1970 and for each regional health authority and England as a whole, the number of cases on (a) the urgent in-patient waiting lists, (b) the urgent lists, waiting over a month, (c) the non-urgent in-patient waiting lists, (d) the non-urgent lists, waiting over a year and (e) the total in-patient waiting lists.

Numbers of patients on in-patient waiting list at 31 December
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
Northern 27,209 26,021 25,856 26,501 29,178 35,903 34,514 34,058 39,983 39,566 36,118 34,804 51,608 42,833 39,386 37,042 37,767
Yorkshire 23,148 22,586 23,132 26,464 31,468 36,736 38,392 36,102 44,181 43,371 40,876 38,598 55,347 48,682 48,909 46,640 47,732
Trent 52,493 48,725 49,652 50,181 44,717 49,049 51,213 52,486 63,041 65,427 58,468 56,786 75,104 68,492 66,330 62,701 59,408
East Anglian 15,670 15,058 16,393 19,330 19,390 22,947 23,460 22,720 27,486 28,850 26,854 23,215 34,583 31,965 30,212 27,702 27,642
North West Thames 55,312 52,194 49,234 48,184 37,939 44,939 45,196 43,005 47,608 44,606 43,768 42,453 42,513 41,354 41,307 42,726 45,737
North East Thames 30,006 30,911 29,692 31,907 37,622 43,746 42,788 44,434 51,668 53,396 49,945 51,529 60,079 58,560 63,819 69,401 69,226
South East Thames 39,744 35,170 34,095 37,649 39,286 45,548 47,104 47,332 51,746 50,186 46,762 45,922 52,501 52,596 50,856 52,476 55,158
South West Thames 32,281 28,668 26,540 29,750 25,767 30,002 32,215 31,174 37,747 39,508 35,326 34,270 38,172 38,095 36,495 36,851 35,825
Wessex 21,531 18,193 20,826 25,054 29,148 31,938 33,557 33,173 37,665 39,140 39,582 41,147 46,546 46,183 45,627 42,397 44,226
Oxford 24,988 23,602 22,247 22,421 28,913 29,693 33,099 32,043 37,409 34,331 33,626 32,224 36,387 36,793 35,492 33,731 33,715
South Western 51,107 45,334 41,453 45,161 40,842 43,340 46,508 46,562 48,637 47,131 42,954 44,733 49,297 50,587 49,096 46,609 45,649
West Midlands 61,145 60,744 56,660 58,813 60,766 68,417 73,890 75,826 83,435 86,490 80,637 78,944 88,241 83,393 83,675 83,311 73,572
Mersey 22,489 21,424 20,157 21,457 24,813 30,271 29,656 29,526 38,110 38,013 33,801 32,939 38,957 34,014 32,303 32,239 29,464
North Western 68,803 65,101 63,262 65,745 60,236 68,503 67,930 65,639 66,069 70,192 62,997 59,752 68,767 60,745 59,031 56,927 61,803
Special Health Authority — — — — 7,339 7,451 7,619 8,011 7,659 7,479 8,396 7,831 7,984 8,682 9,277 9,491 9,551
England 525,926 493,731 479,199 508,617 517,424 588,483 607,141 602,091 682,444 687,686 640,110 625,147 746,086 702,974 691,815 680,244 676,475

Notes:

Figures prior to 1974 relate to Regional Hospital Boards and Boards of Governors.

Because of National Health Service restructuring in 1974 and 1982 the regional figures are not strictly comparable over the whole period.