§ Mr. Ronnie CampbellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give the current waiting list for each specialty in Northumberland health authority and the number of people who have waited(a) for over one year and (b) for over two years in each specialty.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe latest information available, at September 1990, is given in the table. This information is on a "provider" bases, and does not relate to the district's resident population. In the year to March .1990 the number of in-patients treated has increased by 2 per cent. and since 1979 in the order of 16 per cent.
Northumberland Health Authority Number waiting and number waiting over one year for treatment at 30 September 1990—in-patients Specialty Total waiting1 Total waiting 12+months Total waiting 12+months General surgery 450 54 9 Urology 109 7 0 Trauma and orthopaedic 801 147 57 ENT 0 0 0 Oral surgery 23 3 0 Anaesthetics 0 0 0 General medicine 7 0 0 Dermatology 0 0 0 Thoracic medicine 0 0 0 Rheumatology 0 0 0 Paediatrics 0 0 0 Geriatric medicine 8 0 0 Obs and Gyn (Obstretrics) 0 0 0 Obs and Gyn (Gynaecology) 274 15 7 GP maternity function 0 0 0 GP (non maternity) 1 0 0 Mental handicap 14 0 0 Mental illness 9 5 0 Others 0 0 0 Total 1,696 231 73 1 Excludes self-deferred cases—those patients who refuse an offer of admission.