Health Authorities (Purchasing Plans)

HC Deb 14 October 1991 vol 196 cc75-6W

Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance the NHS Management Executive has issued to health authorities on their purchasing plans for 1992–93.

England: In-patient Waiting List by specialty: showing those waiting 24 months or over September 1987—September 1989, March 1990, September 1990 and March 1991
	In-patient waiting list September 1987—March 1991
Specialty	September 1987	September 1988	September 1989	March 1990	September 1990	March 1991
General Surgery	16,535	16,370	16,175	14,097	13,297	9,569
Urology	4,594	4,730	5,270	4,593	3,974	3,683
Trauma & Orthopaedics	20,372	18,146	15,313	13,616	12,329	8,468
ENT	10,755	9,944	8,402	7,372	6,104	3,674
Ophthalmology	2,794	2,509	2,825	2,411	2,497	1,436
Oral Surgery	6,912	7,241	6,315	6,126	5,392	3,009
Restorative Dentistry	1	2	0	0	0	1
Paediatric Dentistry	1	3	7	7	8	8
Orthodontics	0	27	0	0	0	4
Neurosurgery	496	409	433	429	346	188
Plastic Surgery	11,169	15,620	15,219	14,242	12,162	10,081
Cardiothoracic Surgery	278	229	303	443	351	298
Paediatric Surgery	203	198	204	145	106	79
Accident and Emergency	10	6	10	36	5	3
Anaesthetics	11	13	20	33	38	43
Obs & Gyn (Gynaecology)	4,309	3,787	3,953	3,473	3,009	2,119
General Medicine	105	183	255	319	348	262
Gastroenterology	1	6	24	49	23	22
Endocrinology	5	9	35	25	21	17
Clinical Haematology	0	1	1	1	4	0
Clinical Physiology	—	0	0	0	0	0
Clinical Pharmacology	0	0	0	0	0	0
Audiological Medicine	0	0	0	2	0	0
Clinical Genetics	—	0	0	0	0	0
Palliative Medicine	—	—	0	0	0	0
Cardiology	157	180	310	245	266	233
Dermatology	5	9	28	16	24	2
Thoracic Medicine	23	16	8	10	11	9
Infectious Diseases	0	0	0	0	2	1
Genito-urinary Medicine	0	0	0	0	0	2
Nephrology	5	13	13	59	25	8
Medical Oncology	0	4	4	7	8	6
Nuclear Medicine	—	0	0	0	0	0
Neurology	43	57	128	164	227	0
Clinical Neuro-physiology	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rheumatology	36	56	61	101	77	51

Mr. Dorrell

Executive letter, EL(91)103, "Priorities and planning guidance for the National Health Service for 1992–93" issued by the NHS management executive in July 1991, included guidance on purchasing plans. In addition, the management executive's district health authorities project has published a number of papers on different aspects of the district health authority purchasing function. Copies of these documents are available in the Library.