Acute Surgery (Waiting Lists)

HC Deb 24 July 1986 vol 102 cc362-3W

Mr. Barry Jones

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the number of people on the waiting lists for acute surgery every six months since September 1982 for each health authority in Wales.

Mr. Mark Robinson

Acute surgery is not a category which is used in relation to waiting list information. The following table gives information on general surgery waiting lists, including urology, for urgent in-patients, non-urgent in-patients and out-patients.

Authority	Sept. 1982	March 1983	Sept. 1983	March 1984	Sept. 1984	March 1985	Sept. 1985
Powys	29	30	57	27	51	37	71
South Glamorgan	2,024	1,507	2,247	1,801	1,993	1,653	2,491
West Glamorgan	2,122	1,957	1,637	1,888	2,406	2,464	2,750
* The total waiting list for South Glamorgan includes the following cases which cannot be classified as either urgent or non-urgent: September 1984—199, March 1985—214, September 1985—386.