§ Mr. Pikeasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will list in the Official Report the number of patients on waiting lists for (a) urgent treatment and (b) non-urgent treatment on a regional health authority basis for 1979 and each subsequent year, respectively;
(2) if he will list in the Official Report the average waiting time for (a) urgent treatment and (b) non-urgent treatment for each regional health authority for 1979 and each subsequent year, respectively.
§ Mr. WhitneyI am sorry I cannot give the hon. Member the information in precisely the form he seeks. The information available centrally is given in the table.
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Number of Patients on the in-patient waiting list at 30 September Urgent Non-urgent All Cases Cases on list for more than one month Per cent. of urgent cases on list for more than one month All Cases Cases on list for more than one year Per cent. of non-urgent eases on list for more than one year Northern Regional Health Authority 1979 3,004 2,122 70.64 39,284 10,247 26.08 1980 2,633 1,841 69.92 32,905 8,553 25.99 1981 2,286 1,767 77.30 30,819 8,066 26.17 1982 3,350 2,671 79.73 46,608 10,466 22.46 1983 2,615 2,055 78.59 41,863 12,495 29.85 1984 1,982 1,395 70.38 36,816 10,088 27.40 1985 1,951 1,358 69.61 34,203 6,737 19.70 Yorkshire Regional Health Authority 1979 1,539 964 62.64 45,684 10,052 22.00 1980 1,504 964 64.10 39,478 9,513 24.10 1981 1,630 1,127 69.14 36,071 8,443 23.41 1982 2,167 1,528 70.51 50,866 10,258 20.17 1983 2,202 1,569 71.25 47,161 11,891 25.21 1984 1,829 1,316 71.95 45,197 11,213 24.81 1985 2,160 1,406 65.09 43,603 9,440 21.65 Trent Regional Health Authority 1979 5,050 3,768 7.457 61,448 23,012 37.40 1980 4,407 3,331 75.58 53,488 20,601 38.52 1981 4,320 3,130 72.45 52,531 19,476 37.08 1982 5,085 3,702 72.80 68,424 23,732 34.68 1983 4,148 3,019 72.76 65,008 26,353 40.54 1984 3,378 2,111 62.49 61,946 23,676 38.22 1985 3,280 1,898 57.87 58,910 17,743 30.12 East Anglia Regional Health Authority 1979 3,440 2,452 71.28 24,531 7,449 30.37 1980 2,123 1,358 63.97 23,649 7,024 29.70 1981 2,158 1,377 63.81 23,438 6,108 26.06 1982 3,097 2,116 68.32 29,838 7,594 25.45 1983 2,796 1,894 67.74 30,284 9,960 32.85 1984 2,804 1,894 67.55 28,344 9,335 32.93 1985 2,494 1,790 71.77 24,894 7,508 30.16 North- West Thames Regional Health Authority 1979 2,720 1,700 62.50 40,875 10,579 25.88 1980 2,611 1,446 55.38 39,865 11,054 27.73 1981 2,739 1,680 61.34 38,848 10,002 25.75 1982 2,473 1,579 63.85 38,312 9,533 24.88 1983 2,368 1,615 68.20 38,647 8,778 22.71 1984 2,534 1,323 52.21 37,488 8,869 23.66 1985 2,696 1,878 69.66 37,569 8,811 23.45 North-East Thames Regional Health Authority 1979 4,225 2,823 66.82 48,921 11,278 23.05 1980 3,767 2,408 63.92 45,265 12,795 28.27 1981 3,822 2,389 62.51 44,693 11,998 26.85 1982 5,400 3,314 61.37 52,807 12,522 23.71 1983 5,183 3,052 58.88 53,728 13,001 24.20 1984 5,641 3,768 66.80 57,922 13,956 24.09 1985 6,319 4,360 69.00 60,087 15,308 25.48 South-East Thames Regional Health Authority 1979 3,502 2,501 71.42 46,418 12,549 27.03 1980 3,096 2,023 65.34 42,388 11,986 28,28 1981 3,555 2,376 66.84 42,004 12,025 28.63 1982 4,130 2,827 68.45 47,690 11,075 23.22 1983 3,237 2,089 64.54 48,390 13,367 27.62 1984 3,631 2,446 67.36 48,011 13,064 27.21 1985 3,178 2,178 68.53 46,909 10,474 22.33 South-West Thames Regional Health Authority 1979 3,907 2,767 70.82 33,337 8,631 25.89 1980 3,318 2,374 71.55 31,222 7,043 22.56 1981 2,715 1,637 60.29 31,208 8,959 28.71 1982 4,395 3,096 70.44 32,061 8,601 26.83 1983 3,735 2,411 64.55 33,735 8,794 26.07 1984 3,358 2,257 67.21 32,031 8,208 25.63
Urgent Non-urgent All Cases Cases on list for more than one month Per cent. of urgent cases on list for more than one month All Cases Cases on list for more than one year Per cent. of non-urgent cases on list for more than one year 1985 3,676 2,548 69.31 33,076 8,049 24.33 Wessex Regional Health Authority 1979 3,318 2,040 61.48 36,904 10,377 28.12 1980 3,678 2,529 68.76 34,495 10,558 30.61 1981 4,151 2,976 71.69 36,124 11,776 32.60 1982 4,860 3,716 76.46 40,457 11,765 29.08 1983 4,344 3,256 74.95 42,535 14,319 33.66 1984 3,542 2,131 60.16 41,685 14,358 34.44 1985 3,562 2,325 65.27 38,441 10,065 26.18 Oxford Regional Health Authority 1979 1,756 1,266 72.10 34,424 11,043 32.08 1980 1,693 1,301 76.85 32,207 11,343 35.22 1981 1,758 1,328 75.54 30,804 11,091 36.01 1982 1,911 1,463 76.56 33,823 11,176 33.04 1983 2,158 1,642 76.09 33,924 11,742 34.61 1984 1,872 1,450 77.46 33,467 9,431 28.18 1985 1,591 1,160 72.91 31,718 8,215 25.90 South- Western Regional Health Authority 1979 2,712 1,951 71.94 43,164 13,729 31.81 1980 2,936 2,059 70.13 40,755 12,689 31.13 1981 2,444 1,613 66.00 40,377 13,527 33.50 1982 2,828 1,805 63.83 44,314 14,320 32.31 1983 2,331 1,545 66.28 45,203 16,306 36.07 1984 2,976 1,683 56.55 42,951 14,291 33.27 1985 2,251 1,323 58.77 41,388 12,195 29.47 West Midlands Regional Health Authority 1979 4,651 3,261 70.11 83,042 33,421 40.25 1980 3,831 2,561 66.85 77,106 31,718 41.14 1981 3,664 2,419 66.02 76,288 30,020 39.35 1982 5,071 3,366 66.38 81,473 29,313 35.98 1983 3,872 2,369 61.18 79,726 29,025 36.41 1984 4,309 2,695 62.54 78,810 27,193 34.50 1985 4,805 3,230 67.22 76,169 23,540 30.90 Mersey Regional Health Authority 1979 3,652 2,898 79.35 34,920 11,596 33.21 1980 2,131 1,441 67.62 31,929 11,321 35.46 1981 2,017 1,368 67.82 31,088 10,474 33.69 1982 2,018 1,418 70.27 35,656 11,630 32.62 1983 1,863 1,211 65.00 32,411 10,927 33.71 1984 1,581 944 59.71 29,819 8,791 29.48 1985 1,428 571 39.99 28,713 7,260 25.28 North-Western Regional Health Authority 1979 5,007 3,298 65.87 66,941 23,138 34.56 1980 3,493 2,245 64.27 62,020 21,452 34.59 1981 3,629 2,340 64.48 56,623 18,772 33.15 1982 3,991 2,505 62.77 65,706 20,359 30.98 1983 3,233 1,802 55.74 59,292 18,424 31.07 1984 3,237 1,785 55.14 56,180 16,229 28.89 1985 3,442 2,101 61.04 55,023 14,107 25.64 Special health authorities 1979 603 381 63.18 6,747 431 6.39 1980 506 181 35.77 7,382 343 4.65 1981 386 152 39.38 7,203 168 2.33 1982 590 295 50.00 6,464 558 8.63 1983 549 198 36.07 7,214 538 7.46 1984 350 39 11.14 8,273 655 7.92 1985 236 57 24.15 7,477 775 10.37
§ Mr. Hickmetasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list those hospitals which have reduced their waiting lists most in the last three years; and if he will make a statement about Scunthorpe general hospital's performance in this regard.
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§ Mr. Whitney[pursuant to his reply, 3 June 1986, c. 533–36]: I regret that the percentage decreases in waiting lists given in column 3 of table 1 were incorrect. The amended figures are given in the table.
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Table 1 Waiting list: Ranking of district health authorities by percentage decrease of total waiting list cases between September 1984 and 1985 District health authority 1984 1985 Percentage Change †Rank Scunthorpe 4,654 2,962 -36.4 1 Newham 1,560 999 -36.0 2 Macclesfield 1,767 1,152 -34.8 3 Darlington 2,073 1,360 -34.4 4 Grimsby 1,783 1,204 -32.5 5 Tunbridge Wells 7,071 4,859 -31.3 6 Salisbury 5,903 4,261 -27.8 7 Rugby 589 432 -26.7 8 Norwich 10,677 7,926 -25.8 9 South Sefton 5,150 3,850 -25.2 10 Bromsgrove and Redditch 2,647 1,991 -24.8 11 North West Durham 847 643 -24.1 12 Frenchay 5,846 4,483 -23.3 13 The Maudsley Hospital 148 115 -22.3 14 Moorfields Eye Hospital 1,720 1,350 -21.5 15 Aylesbury Vale 5,111 4,024 -21.3 16 Victoria* 2,739 2,180 -20.4 17 North West Hertfordshire 2,409 1,930 -19.9 18 Coventry 8,106 6,501 -19.8 19 Northallerton 627 506 -19.3 20 * Now part of Riverside district health authority. † Out of 191 district health authorities.