HC Deb 18 November 1985 vol 87 cc84-6W
Mr. Hancock

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the total number of hospital beds in Portsmouth for the latest available date and also for each year since 1979.

Mr. Whitney

The requested information is given in the table. The number of in-patient cases treated per available bed per year increased from 16.2 to 20.5 between 1979 and 1984.

Specialty Number
ENT 248
Traumatic and orthopaedic surgery 659
Ophthalmology 304
Plastic surgery 2,865
Oral surgery 372
Gynaecology 604
Total 5,810
West Surrey and North East Hampshire DHA*
General surgery 871
ENT 766
Traumatic and orthopaedic surgery 1,342
Ophthalmology 509
Urology 419
Oral surgery 55

Specialty Number
Gynaecology 647
Other specialist units total 73
Total 4,682
Southampton and South West Hampshire DHA
General medicine 24
Dermatology 8
Neurology 94
Cardiology 221
Rheumatology 44
Geriatrics 88
General surgery 2,056
ENT 1,797
Traumatic and orthopaedic surgery 1,143
Ophthalmology 679
Radiotherapy 14
Urology 512
Thoracic surgery 79
Oral surgery 908
Neurosurgery 134
Gynaecology 686
Mental handicap 15
GP other 8
Other specialist units 222
Total 8,732
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire DHA
General medicine 51
Dermatology 16
Rheumatology 10
Geriatrics 9
General surgery 927
ENT 1,152
Traumatic and orthopaedic surgery 1,073
Ophthalmology 480
Radiotherapy 10
Urology 844
Oral surgery 405
Gynaecology 1,145
Mental handicap 6
Total 6,128
Winchester DHA
Rheumatology 3
Geriatrics 12
General surgery 493
ENT 321
Traumatic and orthopaedic surgery 821
Ophthalmology 291
Urology 68
Oral surgery 177
Gynaecology 210
GP dental 1
Total 2,397
Basingstoke and North Hampshire DHA
General surgery 468
ENT 365
Traumatic and orthopaedic surgery 1,628
Ophthalmology 231
Thoracic surgery 16
Oral surgery 212
Gynaecology 359
Total 3,279
* DHA lies partly within Hampshire.

Mr. Hancock

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many women are on hospital waiting lists in Portsmouth and the South East Hampshire health district for gynaecological treatment;

(2) how many people in Portsmouth and the South East Hampshire health district awaiting urgent operations have been on the hospital waiting list for more than a month;

(3) what is the average length of the waiting list for non-emergency orthopaedic cases in South East Hampshire and Portsmouth respectively.

Mr. Whitney

Information is not available centrally in precisely the form requested. On 31 March 1985, the latest date for which information is available centrally, there were in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire District health authority 1,145 cases on in-patient waiting lists in the specialty of gynaecology and 1,052 non-urgent cases in the orthopaedic specialty. A total of 102 urgent cases in the surgical specialties had been waiting for more than a month.