HC Deb 24 June 1986 vol 100 cc149-52W
Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide details of the waiting list for each specialty for every hospital on Merseyside.

Mr. Whitney

The number of persons awaiting admission to each specialty at each of the hospitals in the Liverpool, St. Helens and Knowsley, Southport and Formby, South Sefton and Wirral district health authorities is given in the table.

Number of persons on in-patient waiting lists on 31 December 1985 (provisionsl)
District Health Authority, hospital and specialty Total cases
Liverpool District Health Authority

District Health Authority, hospital and specialty Total cases
Saint Paul's Eye Hospital
Ophthalmology 549
Total 549
Women's Hospital
Gynaecology 655
Total 655
Royal Liverpool Hospital
General Surgery 619
Ear, nose and throat 313
Traumatic and orthopaedic 622
Urology 584
Oral surgery 195
Gynaecology 331
Pathology 10
Total 2,674
Broadgreen Hospital
Cardiology 294
General surgery 894
Traumatic and orthopaedic 286
Urology 211
Thoracic surgery 8
Oral surgery 386
Cardiac surgery 103
Total 2,182
Newsham General Hospital
Dermatology 10
Traumatic and orthopaedic 241
Total 251
Mill Road Maternity Hospital
Gynaecology 95
Total 95
Alder Hay Children's Hospital
Ear, nose and throat 384
Traumatic and orthopaedic 176
Ophthalmology 33
Urology 59
Plastic surgery 260
Oral surgery 38
Psychiatry children 7
Paediatric surgery 416
Paediatric dentistry 31
Total 1,404
Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital
Cardiology 187
Traumatic and orthopaedic 10
Oral surgery 55
Paediatric surgery 77
Paediatric dentistry 8
Total 337
St. Helens and Knowsley District Health Authority
Whiston Hospital
General surgery 247

District Health Authority, hospital and specialty Total cases
Ear, nose and throat 645
Traumatic and orthopaedic 505
Plastic surgery 930
Gynaecology 619
Total 2,946
St. Helens Hospital
General surgery 274
Traumatic and orthopaedic 308
Ophthalmology 90
Total 672
Southport and Formby District Health Authority
Southport General Hospital
General surgery 360
Traumatic and orthopaedic 121
Ophthalmology 304
Gynaecology 313
Total 1,098
Southport Promenade Hospital
Geriatrics 6
Spinal Injuries 18
Total 24
Greaves Hall Hospital
Mental handicap 4
Psychogeriatric 10
Total 14
South Sefton District Health Authority
Walton Hospital
Neurology 141
General surgery 486
Ear, nose and throat 745
Traumatic and orthopaedic 398
Ophthalmology 17
Urology 130
Oral surgery 98
Neurosurgery 166
Gynaecology 400
Anaesthetics 52
Gastroenterology 80
Total 2,713
Fazakerley Hospital
General surgery 109
Traumatic and orthopaedic 781
Gynaecology 340
Total 1,230
Wirral District Health Authority
Arrowe Park Hospital
Rheumatology 5
General surgery 391
Ear, nose and throat 798
Traumatic and orthopaedic 25
Ophthalmology 283
Oral surgery 139
Gynaecology 638
Total 2,279

District Health Authority, hospital and specialty Total cases
Clatterbridge Hospital
General medicine 1
Geriatrics 1
General surgery 432
Traumatic and orthopaedic 345
Radiotherapy 112
Total 891

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