§ Mr. Cartwrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will set out the most recent available statistics on (a) the average length of stay, (b) the total cost per in-patient day. (c) the size of waiting lists and (d) the mortality rates for the cardio-thoracic units at Guys, St. Thomas's and King's College hospitals.
§ Dr. VaughanInformation is not available centrally in the form requested. The following statistics may, however, be helpful (figures at 31 December 1979):
Cardiology Average stay in days Waiting list Guy's hospital 10.00 71 St. Thomas' hospital 10.2 192 King's College hospital 8.00 58
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Hospital Catheterisations Coronary Arteriographies (included in (a)) Open Heart Surgery Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (included in (c)) (a) (b) (c) (d) 1976 1977 1978 1976 1977 1978 1976 1977 1978 1976 1977 1978 Guy's 431 592 880 281 387 629 278 299 265 98 139 165 King's 580 695 756 312 356 441 150 280 304 47 104 †112 St. Thomas's‡ 447 549 *605 †300 †400 †400 277 281 *280 104 103 116 * Extrapolation from part-year total. † Estimate. ‡ Full right and left heart catheterisation performed in the case of nearly all patients investigated primarily for coronary artery disease, and coronary arteriographies performed in the case of all aortic valve and many other valve patients.
§ Mrs. ChalkerThe table below gives, for the family types shown, the estimated numbers of registered unemployed males receiving unemployment benefit and/ or supplementary allowance in November 1979—the latest available date. The information is not directly comparable with that given in my reply of 7 March 1980—[Vol. 980, c.361–62]—as married men without dependants who are not receiving supplementary allowance can now be identified, and are included in the column for married men with no children.
Thoracic surgery Average stay in days Waiting list Guy's hospital 16.8 79 St. Thomas' hospital 13–9 100 King's College hospital 13.1 74
§ Mr. Cartwrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many cardiac operations—including pacemaker insertions—were carried out in the cardio-thoracic units at Guys, St. Thomas's and King's College hospitals, respectively, during the most recent 12-month period for which figures are available; and what percentage of these involved private patients.
§ Dr. VaughanInformation is not collected centrally in the form requested. The London Health Planning Consortium's study group report on cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, published in 1979, gives the following information for main adult procedures: