§ Mr. Corbettasked the Secretary of State for Social services what was the number of people awaiting admission for thoracic surgery, orthopaedics and radiotherapy in each of the health authority areas, by name, in the area of the west midlands regional health authority at the latest convenient date; and how this compared with the position one, two and three years earlier.
§ Mr. John Patten[pursuant to his reply, 8 March 1984, c. 682The available information for those districts which have waiting lists in these specialties is given in the tables.
West Midlands Regional Health Authority Number of persons on in-patient waiting lists for Thoracic surgery on 31 March District Health Authority* 1980 1981 1982 1983 North Staffordshire 74 12 8 20 Central Birmingham 546 288 361 400 East Birmingham 29 41 65 79 Coventry 179 200 156 100 Wolverhampton 8 5 12 13 Total 836 546 602 612 598W
Number of persons on in-patient waiting lists for orthopaedics on 31 March District Health Authority* 1980 1981 1982 1983 Bromsgrove and Redditch 287 411 359 316 Herefordshire 257 268 354 421 Kidderminster and District 250 179 234 288 Worcester and District 464 520 438 553 Shropshire 1,145 1,057 1,227 1,621 Mid Staffordshire 278 204 189 174 North Staffordshire 2,575 2,333 2,299 2,545 South East Staffordshire 401 392 471 525 Rugby 403 152 84 65 North Warwickshire 173 131 124 111 South Warwickshire 422 355 388 460 Central Birmingham 437 390 469 519 East Birmingham 828 868 689 648 North Birmingham 764 874 1,166 960 South Birmingham 2,644 2,479 2,303 2,621 West Birmingham 306 275 196 276 Coventry 2,055 1,801 1,971 1,935 Dudley 996 962 1,021 836
District Health Authority* 1980 1981 1982 1983 Sandwell 148 210 290 156 Solihull 589 709 765 682 Walsall 210 201 246 320 Wolverhampton 626 687 532 479 Total 16,258 15,458 15,815 16,511
Number of persons on in-patients waiting lists for Radiotherapy on 31 March District Health Authority* 1980 1981 1982 1983 North Staffordshire 52 36 5 — Central Birmingham 57 25 26 11 Coventry 18 38 31 26 Wolverhampton 7 8 6 4 Total 134 107 68 41 * Figures for 1980, 1981 and 1982 are for Health Districts but the waiting list figures for those specialties are comparable with those for the corresponding District Health Authorities in 1983.