HC Deb 15 December 1983 vol 50 cc574-6W
Mr. Ashley

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many persons are on the waiting lists for inpatient treatment in each of the hospitals in the north Staffordshire health district; if he will give the numbers by medical category; and if he will express them as a percentage of the annual number treated in each category.

Mr. John Patten

[pursuant to his reply, 8 December 1983, c. 233]: The information at the latest available date is given in the table below. It should be noted that some patients are admitted as emergency cases without being entered on the waiting list

Persons on the in-patient waiting list in the north Staffordshire district health authority on 31 December 1982.
Hospital and specialty Number waiting Number on waiting list per 100 discharges and deaths during 1982
North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary
General Medicine 3 0.2
Neurology 62 6.8
General Surgery 301 8.6
Ear, nose and throat 366 26.1
Traumatic and Orthopaedic 10 0.6
Ophthalmology 634 63.1
Urology 55 17.1
Plastic Surgery 772 182.1
Thoracic Surgery 22 3.6
Neurosurgery 79 8.6
Gynaecology 309 15.1
Endocrinology 2 0.9
Nephrology 7 1.8
Total—all specialties 2,622 17.9
Stoke City General Hospital
Dermatology 16 4.3
Cardiology 137 11.2
General Surgery 1,255 56.7
Ear, nose and throat 172 19.9
Urology 143 13.2
Gynaecology 1,347 51.0
Total—all specialties 3,070 36.6
St. Edward's Hospital
Mental Illness 32 2.8
Total—all specialties 32 2.8
Stallington Hospital
Mental Handicap 4 3.1
Total—all specialties 4 3.1
Burslem, Haywood and Tunstall War Memorial Hospital
Rheumatology 7 2.3
General Surgery 40 6.6
Total—all specialties 47 5.2
Longton Hospital
General Surgery 265 58.5
Ear, nose and throat 442 92.9
Total—all specialties 707 76.1
Leek Memorial Hospital
General Surgery 92 94.8
Gynaecology 46 63.9
Total—all specialties 138 81.7
Biddulph Grange Orthopaedic Hospital
General Surgery 156 106.1
Total—all specialties 156 106.1
Hartshill Orthopaedic Hospital
Traumatic and Orthopaedic 2,547 164.4
Total—all specialties 2,547 164.4

The waiting list is maintained only at district level for the following

Hospital and specialty Number waiting Number on waiting list per 100 discharges and deaths during 1982
specialties:
Geriatrics 29 1.9
Units for Younger Disabled 11 64.7