HC Deb 16 February 1989 vol 147 cc339-40W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will state for the 10 district health authorities with the longest waiting lists in the latest available returns(a) the length of wait and (b) the type of procedure or surgery to which the wait applies.

Mr. Freeman

Waiting information about individual districts is published in "Hospital Waiting Lists—Regional and District Summaries", copies of which are available in the Library. The summaries provide a percentage breakdown by time waited and by surgical specialty. We do not collect waiting information centrally by type of operation.

The 10 district health authorities with the largest waiting lists at 31 March 1988 were:

  • Bloomsbury
  • Sheffield

confined to those who reported extra expenditure. Part B shows the proportion of those who reported extra expenditure.

  • Norwich
  • Leicestershire
  • North Staffordshire
  • Liverpool
  • Barking, Havering and Brentwood
  • Bristol and Weston
  • Newcastle
  • Shropshire