Hospital Waiting Lists

HC Deb 08 March 1990 vol 168 c824W

Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how often hospital waiting lists are collected; and if he will publish them.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

Information about hospital in-patient waiting lists is collected quarterly from health authorities. Booklets summarising the information arid bulletins commenting on trends are published for the March and September quarters, maintaining a series of comparable figures back to September 1975.

Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if the hospital in-patient waiting lists for 30 September 1989 will be published within six months of the collection date.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

We plan to publish the waiting list statistics by early April.