§ Dr. Evan HarrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the in-patient waiting list is, expressed as per 1,000 head of weighted population, for(a) each health authority and (b) in total in England for the last two years for which figures are available. [13617]
§ Mr. HuttonThe number of in-patients waiting at end March 2001 and March 2000 are shown in the table, (March 2001 data are the most recent data available).
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In-patient waiting list per 1,000 head of weighted population Health authority March 2001
March 2000
Avon 20.7 20.9 Barking and Havering 24.8 25.8 Barnet 15.8 15.8 Barnsley 17.2 16.9 Bedfordshire 19.8 18.5 Berkshire 18.9 18.8 Bexley and Greenwich 17.0 19.0 Birmingham 12.8 12.7 Bradford 19.3 19.9 Brent and Harrow 17.1 17.6 Bromley 20.8 22.0 Buckinghamshire 21.8 20.7 Bury and Rochdale 22.1 22.9 Calderdale and Kirklees 16.8 18.9 Cambridgeshire 21.0 21.5 Camden and Islington 10.5 12.1 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 24.6 25.1 County Durham and Darlington 16.5 17.4 Coventry 13.3 12.8 Croydon 20.0 19.3 Doncaster 12.1 12.5 Dorset 12.7 13.3 Dudley 16.5 14.5 East and North Hertfordshire 24.4 26.3 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 16.6 18.0 East Kent 26.6 27.0 East Lancashire 21.2 22.0 East London and City 14.4 14.4 East Riding and Hull 20.1 20.4 East Surrey 22.9 24.4 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 23.2 23.7 Enfield and Haringey 19.9 19.7 Gateshead and South Tyneside 18.5 19.8 Gloucestershire 15.1 16.0 Herefordshire 16.9 19.1 Hillingdon 15.5 15.2 Isle of Wight 24.8 25.7 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 8.5 9.2 Kingston and Richmond 20.7 18.6
In-patient waiting list per 1,000 head of weighted population Health authority March 2001
March 2000
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 17.9 19.2 Leeds 18.4 19.1 Leicestershire 18.8 18.5 Lincolnshire 24.3 25.4 Liverpool 20.1 20.9 Manchester 20.4 21.2 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 15.1 15.3 Morecambe Bay 20.3 20.0 Newcastle and North Tyneside 13.9 15.0 Norfolk 25.8 25.4 North and East Devon 23.7 23.3 North and Mid Hampshire 22.3 22.3 North Cheshire 28.4 27.4 North Cumbria 22.5 23.1 North Derbyshire 22.1 23.1 North Essex 25.6 27.3 North Nottinghamshire 19.2 19.8 North Staffordshire 10.7 13.4 North West Lancashire 22.2 22.9 North Yorkshire 18.7 21.1 Northamptonshire 25.9 25.7 Northumberland 15.4 15.9 Nottingham 16.7 18.1 Oxfordshire 19.2 19.1 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 20.6 19.7 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 22.5 23.8 Rotherham 14.4 14.3 Salford and Trafford 24.0 25.8 Sandwell 13.2 13.6 Sefton 24.9 25.2 Sheffield 17.8 18.0 Shropshire 16.9 17.1 Solihull 17.6 17.8 Somerset 24.2 24.7 South and West Devon 21.8 23.1 South Cheshire 21.7 21.7 South Essex 24.1 24.1 South Humber 24.0 27.6 South Lancashire 28.2 29.3 South Staffordshire 24.6 25.3 Southampton and South West Hamptonshire 26.4 28.1 Southern Derbyshire 21.9 22.4 St. Helens and Knowsley 23.3 23.6 Stockport 23.8 24.0 Suffolk 24.2 24.0 Sunderland 18.3 18.4 Tees 17.6 17.0 Wakefield 19.7 21.2 Walsall 9.7 9.5 Warwickshire 22.2 22.4 West Hertfordshire 20.0 20.6 West Kent 26.5 28.3 West Pennine 25.2 25.3 West Surrey 25.7 27.1 West Sussex 25.1 26.2 Wigan and Bolton 21.2 22.7 Wiltshire 22.0 24.8 Wirral 14.0 14.0 Wolverhampton 13.9 14.3 Worcestershire 20.0 20.6 England 20.0 20.6 Note:
Population is weighted for age, additional need (over and above that accounted for by age) and variations in the unavoidable cost of providing healthcare (market forces factor etc.)
Source:
QF01 waiti8ng times returns/FD Resource Allocation 2 population data