HC Deb 14 January 1981 vol 996 c541W
Mr. Golding

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many persons have been on the in-patients' waiting list in the North Staffordshire health district for over a year for general surgery, gynaecology and trauma and orthopaedic, respectively.

Sir George Young

At 30 September 1980, the latest date for which information is centrally available, the number of patients on in-patient waiting lists for more than one year were 1,018 in general surgery, 1,005 in gynaecology and 1,121 in traumatic and orthopaedic surgery.