§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the mean average interval between the date a patient was placed on the waiting list and the date of admission to a National Health Service hospital for a total hip replacement or other orthoplasty of the hip in England in the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. WhitneyThe estimated mean interval between the date a patient was placed on the waiting list and the date of admission to a National Health Service hospital for500W toal hip replacement or other arthroplasty of hip in England in 1983, the latest year for which information is available centrally, was 35.5 weeks. The estimated median interval, which gives a more typical indication of the waiting experience of the "average" case, was 24 weeks.