§ 48. Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people are currently on the waiting list for operations in the North-West area of England.
§ Sir George YoungThe latest available information held centrally shows that at 31 March 1980 there were 66,949 patients awaiting admission to hospitals in the North-Western regional health authority area, of whom 22,552 were on waiting lists for surgical specialties. Comparable figures for hospitals in the Mersey regional health authority were 35,001 and 14,312 respectively.