HC Deb 31 January 1995 vol 253 c627W
Mrs. Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will carry out a study to determine the influence that private practice in the same unit or speciality has on the waiting list and waiting time for treatment in the NHS.

Mr. Malone

We have no plans for such a study.

Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list those NHS trusts where, over the past 12 months, waiting times in accident and emergency departments have been reported as being longer than five minutes for an initial assessment and longer than two hours for treatment.

Mr. Malone

Information on the percentage of patients at national health service trusts who are seen and assessed within five minutes of arrival and accident and emergency departments for the three months ended March 1994 was published in "The Patients Charter Hospital and Ambulance Services Comparative Performance Guide 1993–94", copies of which are available in the Library.

Information on patients waiting longer than two hours for treatment in accident and emergency departments is not available centrally.