§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will give the latest figures for the percentage of in-patient cases that have to wait for longer than one year in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the West Midlands region, (c) the four Thames regions, (d) the North Staffordshire district health authority and (e) the district health authorities with the highest and lowest percentage figures in the West Midlands region;
(2) if he will give the latest figures for the percentage of urgent in-patient cases that have to wait for longer than
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NHS Hospitals in-patient waiting list at 30 September 1985 Urgent cases on list for more than one month Non-urgent cases on list for more than one year Health Authorities Number Percentage of all urgent cases Number Percentage of all cases West Midlands Region 3,230 67.2 23,540 29.1 Lowest1 District 0 0 (Walsall)2 Health Authority 0 0 (Kidderminster)2 119 9.5 (Kidderminster) one month in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the West Midlands region, (c) the four Thames regions, (d) the North Staffordshire district health authority and (e) the district health authorities with the highest and lowest percentage figures in the West Midlands region.
§ Mr. Newton[pursuant to his reply, 23 October 1986, c. 977–8]: I regret I cannot give the right hon. Member all the information in the exact form requested. The available information is given in the table. Figures for the rest of the United Kingdom are a matter for my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Urgent cases on list for more than one month Non-urgent cases on list for more than one year Health Authorities Number Percentage of all urgent cases Number Percentage of all cases Highest1 District Health Authority 3 100.0 (Solihull)2 3,479 47.0 (Sth. Birmingham) North Staffordshire District 635 75.6 3,884 36.5 North West Thames Region 1,878 69.7 8,811 21.9 North East Thames Region 4,360 69.0 15,308 23.1 South East Thames Region 2,178 68.5 10,474 20.9 South West Thames Region 2,548 69.3 8,049 21.9 England 28,183 65.4 160,227 24.2 1 In terms of percentage of patients. 2 Lowest/highest of the 19 districts in West Midlands with urgent cases.
§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will publish a list of district health authorities in rank order according to the percentage figure of in-patients who have had to wait for over a year for treatment;
(2) if he will publish a list of district health authorities in rank order according to the percentage of urgent inpatient cases who have had to wait for over a month.
§ Mr. Newton[pursuant to his reply, 23 October r986, c. 978]: The information requested is given in the tables. It should not be interpreted in any sense as a simple league table because circumstances vary from one district health authority to another.
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District health authorities listed in order of the percentage of urgent cases waiting over a month at 30 September 1985 District health authority All urgent cases Urgent cases on list for more than one month as a percentage of all urgent cases Warrington 10 100.0 Harrow 7 100.0 Solihull 3 100.0 North Bedfordshire 2 100.0 West Surrey and North East Hants 1,474 94.0 Riverside 594 89.7 Lancaster 143 89.5 Northampton 667 88.8 West Lambeth 687 88.4 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 241 88.0 Tunbridge Wells 388 86.9 Wolverhampton 111 86.5 Sunderland 158 85.4 Tower Hamlets 1,416 84.3 Plymouth 214 83.6 North Manchester 142 83.1 Newham 59 83.1 South West Hertfordshire 138 82.6 Leeds Eastern 601 82.5 East Berkshire 505 82.4 Stockport 427 81.3 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 137 80.3 South Birmingham 727 80.2 Kettering 5 80.0 Basildon and Thurrock 663 79.5 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 253 77.9 North Birmingham 144 77.8 Newcastle 1,210 77.3 Norwich 1,266 75.9 North Staffordshire 840 75.6 Doncaster 351 75.2 Chichester 159 74.2 West Essex 77 74.0 617W
District health authority All urgent cases Urgent cases on list for more than one month as a percentage of all urgent cases Southampton and South West Hants 1,137 73.6 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 586 72.2 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 255 71.8 Sheffield 1,278 71.5 Huddersfield 7 71.4 Bristol and Weston 379 71.2 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 250 71.2 Cambridge 619 70.6 Northumberland 163 70.6 Pontefract 319 70.5 Brighton 449 70.2 Lewisham and North Southwark 756 70.0 Central Birmingham 665 69.5 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 220 69.1 City and Hackney 2,154 68.7 Leeds Western 711 67.8 Hillingdon 750 67.6 Shropshire 428 67.3 Oldham 284 67.3 Milton Keynes 73 67.1 Liverpool 522 67.0 East Dorset 891 66.7 North West Surrey 90 66.7 Paddington and North Kensington 75 66.7 South Warwickshire 188 66.5 Nottingham 152 66.4 Ealing 369 65.9 Islington 145 65.5 East Birmingham 452 65.3 West Dorset 197 65.0 Salisbury 273 64.8 Hounslow and Spelthorne 517 63.6 Hastings 129 63.6 North Lincolnshire 185 63.2 West Birmingham 136 62.5 North Derbyshire 193 62.2 East Suffolk 107 61.7 Worthing 279 61.6 Grimsby 13 61.5 Darlington 10 60.0 Coventry 701 59.9 South Tees 193 59.1 Kingston and Esher 227 58.1 Southend 523 57.6 Tameside and Glossop 124 57.3 Salford 208 57.2 West Norfolk and Wisbech 156 57.1 Airedale 107 55.1 Gloucester 421 54.9 Bath 493 54.8 West Suffolk 41 53.7 618W
District health authority All urgent cases Urgent cases on list for more than one month as a percentage of all urgent cases Wandsworth 484 53.5 North Warwickshire 15 53.3 North East Essex 374 52.7 Bassetlaw 38 52.6 South Lincolnshire 75 52.0 Gateshead 54 51.9 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 345 51.0 Croydon 116 50.9 Somerset 624 50.0 Redbridge 50 50.0 Harrogate 28 50.0 Hampstead 20 50.0 Aylesbury Vale 54 48.1 Rochdale 105 47.6 Dudley 153 46.4 Winchester 40 45.0 Camberwell 108 44.4 South Manchester 797 44.4 Rotherham 59 44.1 Haringey 62 43.5 Waltham Forest 144 43.1 Maidstone 140 42.9 Bloomsbury 342 42.7 Central Manchester 170 42.4 Canterbury and Thanet 304 41.8 Bradford 243 41.2 Barnet 199 40.7 Southern Derbyshire 162 40.1 Dartford and Gravesham 46 39.1 Huntingdon 26 38.5 Wigan 34 38.2 Frenchay 113 38.1 Southmead 64 37.5 Swindon 40 37.5 Crewe 343 37.3 Mid Essex 27 37.0 St. Helens and Knowsley 11 36.4 Mid Downs 91 36.3 Merton and Sutton 283 35.3 Preston 74 35.1 East Hertfordshire 20 35.0 West Cumbria 29 34.5 Medway 141 34.0 Mid Surrey 89 33.7 Torbay 27 33.3 South East Kent 12 33.3 West Berkshire 88 33.0 Leicestershire 695 31.8 Peterborough 26 30.8 Mid Staffordshire 99 29.3 East Surrey 87 28.7 South West Surrey 77 28.6 Herefordshire 51 27.5 Exeter 160 26.9 Hartlepool 54 25.9 Eastbourne 12 25.0 Brent 21 23.8 Oxfordshire 189 23.3 Enfield 13 23.1 Dewsbury 5 20.0 Macclesfield 162 17.9 South Sefton 123 17.9 South East Staffordshire 17 17.6 Wakefield 73 16.4 Trafford 26 15.4 Chester 60 15.0 Calderdale 7 14.3 Barnsley 55 12.7 Central Nottinghamshire 37 10.8 Scarborough 29 10.3 Wirral 197 9.6 Durham 12 8.3
District health authority All urgent cases Urgent cases on list for more than one month as a percentage of all urgent cases Bolton 32 6.3 Worcester and District 42 2.4 North Tyneside 58 0.0 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 27 0.0 Kidderminster and District 19 0.0 Scunthorpe 14 0.0 Walsall 14 0.0 South Cumbria 10 0.0 Wycombe 10 0.0 Isle of Wight 9 0.0 West Lancashire 7 0.0 Bromley 6 0.0 Cheltenham 4 0.0 North Devon 4 0.0 North West Hertfordshire 4 0.0 York 3 0.0 Chorley and South Ribble 1 0.0 The following district health authorities had no urgent cases on the waiting list at 30 September 1985:
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District Health Authorities listed in order of the percentage of non-urgent cases waiting over a year at 30 September 1985. District health authority Total all cases Non-urgent cases on list for more than one year as a percentage of all cases Frenchay 4,483 58.0 Warrington 2,771 48.2 South Birmingham 7,408 47.0 East Birmingham 3,741 45.4 Basildon and Thurrock 5,195 44.8 Oldham 4,530 44.2 Hillingdon 7,243 44.1 Crew 5,248 43.1 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 4,005 42.5 Aylesbury Vale 4,024 42.2 Cambridge 5,397 42.0 Rochdale 2,651 41.7 Central Nottinghamshire 5,532 41.3 Coventry 6,501 39.1 Hartlepool 1,754 38.5 Ealing 1,932 38.4 Scunthorpe 2,962 36.7 Tower Hamlets 6,324 36.7 North Staffordshire 10,635 36.5 West Lambeth 5,471 36.0 Kingston and Esher 2,954 36.0 Sheffield 11,307 35.8 Darlington 1,360 35.5 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 4,684 34.9 South Lincolnshire 3,982 34.8 Nottingham 8,844 34.2 Preston 4,238 34.2 Norwich 7,926 33.9 Tunbridge Wells 4,859 33.4 North Derbyshire 3,075 33.3 Salisbury 4,261 33.2 620W
District health authority Total all cases Non-urgent cases on list for more than one year as a percentage of all cases Southampton and South West Hampshire 8,169 32.9 Northampton 5,152 32.1 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 3,013 32.1 Rotherham 3,936 31.5 East Berkshire 7,126 31.1 South West Hertfordshire 1,862 31.1 Dudley 4,709 30.9 Airedale 2,373 30.4 Solihull 2,067 30.4 Hull 6,200 30.2 Kettering 2,694 29.8 Hampstead 2,321 29.5 Cheltenham 2,216 29.4 Somerset 4,846 29.3 Mid Surrey 2,472 28.6 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 2,676 28.4 Gloucester 4,344 28.4 Stockport 4,297 27.9 South Tees 7,081 27.9 South Warwickshire 3,313 27.4 Plymouth 5,126 27.0 Bath 5,346 26.9 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 3,228 26.7 Herefordshire 2,496 26.7 Bromsgrove and Redditch 1,991 26.6 Rugby 432 26.4 Leeds Eastern 5,681 26.1 Wigan 4,349 25.7 South Sefton 3,850 25.7 Winchester 2,372 25.3 Southmead 2,617 25.0 Chichester 2,402 25.0 Walsall 2,736 24.8 Bolton 2,607 24.4 Doncaster 5,048 24.2 Lancaster 1,963 24.1 Southern Derbyshire 6,601 24.1 South West Surrey 2,897 24.0 Enfield 3,005 23.9 St. Helens and Knowsley 3,353 23.8 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 6,280 23.8 Tameside and Glossop 2,084 23.8 Pontefract 1,999 23.4 Shropshire 7,484 23.4 Dartford and Gravesham 4,170 23.2 Bromley 1,932 23.0 Chorley and South Ribble 994 22.8 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 1,994 22.6 Salford 4,281 22.4 Dewsbury 803 22.3 Central Birmingham 5,783 22.2 Worthing 2,992 22.1 Mid Staffordshire 2,173 22.1 North Warwickshire 1,765 21.9 Wolverhampton 3,931 21.3 North Bedfordshire 2,212 21.3 Bassetlaw 771 21.1 North Hertfordshire 2,509 21.1 West Essex 4,717 21.0 Southport and Formby 1,071 20.9 Bloomsbury 12,702 20.7 Canterbury and Thanet 3,837 20.6 West Suffolk 2,264 20.5 Hounslow and Spelthorne 4,612 20.4 Waltham Forest 4,132 20.3 Huddersfield 2,940 20.1 621W
District health authority Total all cases Non-urgent cases on list for more than one year as a percentage of all cases Brent 1,772 19.9 East Suffolk 2,890 19.8 West Birmingham 3,534 19.7 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 6,080 19.5 West Surrey and North East Hants 4,514 19.5 City and Hackney 6,439 19.4 Islington 1,830 19.3 Lewisham and North Southwark 7,162 19.3 West Dorset 2,411 19.2 Southend 2,883 19.2 Maidstone 2,161 18.8 Eastbourne 2,630 18.5 South East Staffordshire 2,337 18.4 East Yorkshire 1,205 18.2 Brighton 4,222 18.0 Bristol and Weston 7,520 17.9 South Manchester 6,547 17.7 Bradford 5,956 17.7 East Cumbria 2,863 17.6 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 3,877 17.5 South West Durham 638 17.1 Exeter 4,638 16.8 Barnet 3,549 16.7 Wandsworth 2,646 16.4 North Lincolnshire 3,432 16.2 North West Durham 643 16.0 Newcastle 8,645 15.8 Swindon 3,306 15.8 Milton Keynes 2,316 15.8 North Devon 1,178 15.5 Torbay 1,987 15.4 Central Manchester 4,902 15.2 East Dorset 5,328 14.9 West Berkshire 4,532 14.9 North Birmingham 2,216 14.8 Worcester and District 3,199 14.8 Hastings 2,285 14.7 Leeds Western 4,587 14.7 Bamsley 2,080 14.4 Northumberland 1,848 14.4 South Cumbria 1,292 14.3 Mid Downs 2,396 13.7 Greenwich 1,972 13.6 West Lancashire 1,773 13.5 South Tyneside 690 13.5 Sandwell 1,274 13.3 North West Surrey 3,101 13.1 Sunderland 3,937 13.1 Riverside 5,333 12.8 Wirral 3,059 12.7 York 2,776 12.6 Bexley 1,659 12.4 Liverpool 7,921 12.1 Mid Essex 3,382 12.0 Peterborough 3,494 12.0 North East Essex 3,754 12.0 Leicestershire 7,582 11.8 West Cumbria 1,186 11.7 Macclesfield 1,152 11.7 East Surrey 1,400 11.7 South East Kent 2,791 11.6 Oxfordshire 6,268 11.5 Camberwell 2,749 11.2 North Manchester 2,490 11.1 Newham 999 10.7 South Bedfordshire 2,156 10.5 Chester 1,573 10.4 Croydon 2,368 10.3 Scarborough 1,687 10.3 Wakefield 2,074 10.0
District health authority Total all cases Non-urgent cases on list for more than one year as a percentage of all cases Harrow 1,105 9.9 Kidderminster and District 1,249 9.5 North Tees 995 9.4 Grimsby 1,204 9.2 Medway 2,187 9.2 Gateshead 1,036 9.2 Calderdale 1,231 8.9 Redbridge 1,388 8.1 West Norfolk and Wisbech 1,627 7.7 Durham 880 7.7 North West Hertfordshire 1,930 7.5 Harrogate 1,579 7.4 Haringey 1,055 6.9 Isle of Wight 1,502 6.9 Wycombe 1,197 6.8 Trafford 1,231 6.3 Merton and Sutton 2,605 6.3 Paddington and North Kensington 2,765 6.1
Geriatric sector England 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 Available beds NHS hospitals specialty of Geriatric medicine Number of beds 54,947 55,550 55,646 55,801 55,571 55,320 Geriatric beds as a percentage of all available beds in NHS hospitals 15.4 15.8 16.0 16.3 16.6 17.0 Independent sector hospitals and nursing homes, number of beds for elderly patients n/a n/a 18,197 22,554 127,346 233,869 Activity NHS hospitals specialty of Geriatric medicine In-patient cases treated 264,006 279,954 297,200 324,634 349,773 382,181 Day cases treated 651 764 494 371 507 678 Total out-patient attendances 254,819 270,115 279,731 302,072 322,004 336,537 Regular geriatric day patient attendances 1,474,428 1,504,251 1,504,323 1,606,404 1,614,842 1,602,576 NHS patients receiving treatment under contractual arrangements with non-NHS institutions2 In-patient cases treated 1,235 1,357 1,253 957 1,086 '999 Total out-patient attendances 5,900 4,257 3,772 4,630 2,992 '2,853 1 Provisional. 2 No information is available centrally on non-NHS patients treated in private sector hospitals. n/a Not available.