HC Deb 18 May 1976 vol 911 c507W
Sir George Young

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list those illnesses for which there is currently a waiting list at NHS hospitals.

Dr. Owen

Current information in the form requested is not available, but the following table gives the various specialities, at 30th September 1975, which had waiting lists:

  • General medicine
  • Paediatrics
  • Chest diseases
  • Dermatology
  • Neurology
  • Cardiology
  • Rehabilitation
  • VD
  • Rheumatology
  • Geriatric
  • Younger disabled
  • General surgery
  • ENT (T & A)
  • ENT (other)
  • Traumatic and orthopaedic surgery
  • Opthalmology
  • Radiotherapy
  • Urology
  • Plastic surgery
  • Thoracic surgery
  • Dental surgery
  • Orthodontics
  • Neurosurgery
  • Gynaecology
  • Psychiatry: children
  • Mental handicap
  • Mental illness
  • Adolescent psychiatry
  • Others

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