HC Deb 10 June 1974 vol 874 cc479-80W
Mr. Michael Latham

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how

Mr. John Moore

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the average length of waiting lists for the admission of non-emergency cases in the Croydon and Bromley areas; and to what extent these lists have been shortened over the past five years.

Dr. Owen

The number of people on waiting lists for non-emergency admission to hospitals now in the Bromley and Croydon health areas at 31st December in each of the past five years is as follows:

ciated with osteo-arthritis, by no means all experience symptoms attributable to this disease. It has been estimated that perhaps half a million persons may suffer from some functional impairment.