§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many private patients had appointments with consultants in National Health Service hospitals in the west midlands region in each of the last seven years; what sums were paid to each authority in the region for the use of rooms for such consultations; and 573W what was the length of the waiting lists for different categories of treatments in each authority each year during the same period.
§ Mr. Hayhoe[pursuant to his reply, 7 March 1986, c. 317.]: The available information is given in the tables.
Numbers of cases on in-patient waiting list for admission to NHS hospitals in West Midland RHA at 30 September Specialty 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 *1985 General medicine 228 126 223 217 179 135 203 Paediatrics 7 — 2 — 3 6 3 Dermatology 66 80 98 71 53 106 154 Neurology 269 221 405 408 356 405 273 Cardiology 591 458 386 384 370 339 318 Rheumatology 190 182 149 224 258 376 101 Geriatrics 752 770 710 436 327 204 181 Younger disabled 10 20 34 20 19 7 15 General surgery 23,745 22,257 20,688 22,606 21,649 20,035 18,567 ENT 13,821 11,860 13,339 14,247 13,899 14,159 15,020 Traumatic and Orthopaedic 17,052 15,451 15,204 16,807 16,824 16,531 15,937 Ophthalmology 7,124 6,333 5,980 6,705 7,010 7,666 7,055 Radiotherapy 126 141 86 58 49 17 20 Urology 2,104 2,200 2,120 2,750 2,886 3,076 3,315 Plastic surgery 4,270 4,230 4,470 4,242 3,402 2,943 2,845 Thoracic surgery 821 816 580 646 597 609 399 Oral surgery 2,718 2,524 2,764 3,142 2,755 3,381 3,536 Neurosurgery 572 617 619 841 986 1,004 914 Gynaecology 11,168 10,659 10,484 12,189 11,594 11,798 11,728 Psychiatry children 23 11 5 1 9 6 17 Mental handicap 80 64 42 26 23 6 — Mental illness 220 250 241 184 175 149 120 Adolescent psychiatry 3 — — 3 — — — GP other 1,475 1,457 1,045 — — — — Other specialist units 258 210 278 337 175 161 253 Total 87,693 80,937 79,952 86,544 83,598 83,119 80,974 * Provisional.