HC Deb 02 February 2004 vol 417 c718W
Mrs. Iris Robinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many patients are awaiting(a) in-patient admission and (b) initial out-patient assessment for orthopaedic surgery. [152363]

Angela Smith

Waiting list statistics are submitted to the Department at specialty level. The information in this answer relates to people waiting in the trauma and orthopaedics specialty. The latest available waiting list figures show the position at 30 September 2003, when

  1. (a) there were 6,253 patients awaiting admission to hospital in the trauma and orthopaedics surgery specialty.
  2. (b) there were 19,619 patients awaiting a first out-patient appointment in the trauma and orthopaedics surgery specialty.