§ Mr. Aitkenasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many medical and administrative vacancies exist for staff at the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Thanet.
§ Mr. Aitkenasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when work is expected to start on the building of additional operating facilities at the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Thanet.
§ Dr. OwenI would refer the hon. Member to my reply to his Question on 11th July.
606WHealth authorities are currently undertaking a comprehensive review of all capital projects and assessing the nature and relative priority of each. We have not yet been able to notify regional hospital authorities of the planning assumptions they should adopt for the years 1976–77 to 1978–79. When these are notified the regional hospital authorities' judgment of priorities, and the resources likely to be available, will determine, subject to my right hon. Friend's approval, the extent of their health building programmes for those years.—[Vol. 895, c. 292.]
§ Mr. Aitkenasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will list, by type of operation, the numbers of people currently on the waiting lists for non-emergency operations at the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Thanet, the number of each type of non-emergency operations which are carried out each week and the average time each patient spends on the waiting list before their non-emergency operation.
§ Dr. OwenFollowing are the figures:
Number on waiting list Orthopaedic 627 +177 delayed by mutual agreement. Urology 40 +130 delayed by mutual agreement. Number of operations carried out each week Orthopaedic 12 Urology 8 Average waiting time days Orthopaedic 480 Urology 234