§ Mr. Harrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the current waiting list for hip replacement operations in Cornwall; and what steps are being taken to reduce the list.
§ Mr. John PattenWaiting list information is available centrally by the specialty of treatment and not by operation. My hon. Friend may wish to write to the chairman of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly health authority which may be able to let him have the required information.
§ Mr. Harrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the current waiting list for rheumatology treatment in Cornwall; and what steps are being taken to reduce the list.
§ Mr. John PattenThe number of persons on National Health Service inpatient waiting lists for admission to rheumatology departments in the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly district health authority on 30 September 1984, the latest date for which information is available centrally, was 59 (provisional).
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Health Authorities Health Authority Description of Project £ Northern Region East Cumbria Health Authority Walk-in Centre 75,800 Newcastle Health Authority Extension of services at Drug Dependence Unit 146,670 South Tyneside Health Authority Community Psychiatric Nursing Team 103,413 Yorkshire Region Leeds Western Health Authority Community Based Drug Addiction Service 80,663 Trent Region North Lincolnshire Health Authority Information gathering and co-ordination 18,500 Nottingham Health Authority Outpatient/Community Centre 127,180 East Anglian Region East Anglian Regional Health Authority Part-time clinic in Norwich 105,475 Cambridge Health Authority Street based Clinic for Young Drug Misusers 186,644 Peterborough Health Authority Drug Screening Equipment 3,450 North West Thames Regional Health Authority Hillingdon Regional Health Authority Educational/Preventative Programme 109,555 Paddington and North Kensington Health Authority Therapy Service for Drug Misusers and Families 187,500 Authority Hammersmith and Fulham Health Authority Drug Screening Service 19,836 North Hertfordshire Health Authority Drug Education and Screening Service 16,877 Ealing Health Authority Drug Screening Analytical Equipment 23,173 Victoria Health Authority Monitoring of Young Unregistered Drug Misusers 147,450 For the second part of his question I refer my hon. Friend to my right hon. and learned Friend's reply to the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) on 7 February at column 683.