§ Mr. JenkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list, for each of the last 10 years, the total number of patients in Tamworth constituency, or the nearest relevant unit of population, waiting for NHS operations for longer than(a) 18, (b) 15, (c) 12, (d) nine and (e) six months. [185836]
§ Dr. LadymanThe information requested is not collected centrally on a constituency basis, but is collected at a primary care trust level (PCT) and the earliest available data are shown in the table.
guarantees. Further details will be available in the technical guidance to the public service agreement, which will be published by Her Majesty's Treasury. Final guidance will be issued in the autumn.
§ Mr. LansleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans his Department has to reconfigure departmental waiting list statistics so that they measure total waiting time to treatment as outlined in the NHS improvement plan. [184326]
§ Mr. Hutton[holding answer on 15 July 2004]: The national health service already measures total waiting time to treatment for cancer services with targets for maximum waiting times set in the "Cancer Plan" (2000).
The Government will shortly be setting out its plans for delivering the target outlined in the NHS Improvement Plan 2008, including how waiting times for diagnostic procedures and total waiting times will be measured.