§ Mr. Arnoldasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what plans he has to improve the accuracy of the information available to him about National Health Service waiting lists.
§ Mr. NewtonAll health authorities are asked to ensure that their waiting lists accurately reflect the demand for services and I am not aware of any specific problems with the data they supply. Since 1 April an improved system for collecting waiting list data has been in operation. This will provide the Department with more frequent and more comprehensive information about waiting times.
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§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras can expect a substantive reply to his question about hospital waiting lists to which a holding answer was given on 23 March, Official Report, columns 75–76.
§ Mr. NewtonI replied to the hon. Member today.
§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will set out, region by region, district health authority in-patient waiting lists, the total population living in each district, the percentage which the former represents of the latter and their national ranking by that percentage.
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Number of cases on in-patient waiting list at 30 September 1986 and resident population (mid 1985) with total cases as a percentage of population District Health Authority Total cases Resident population (hundreds) Total cases as a percentage of resident population Northern Regional Health Authority Hartlepool 1,461 916 1.6 North Tees 925 1,758 0.5 South Tees 5,996 2,925 2.0 East Cumbria 3,253 1,766 1.8 South Cumbria 1,333 1,715 0.8 West Cumbria 1,215 1,363 0.9 Darlington 2,449 1,241 2.0 Durham 995 2,365 0.4 North West Durham 690 863 0.8 South West Durham 671 1,540 0.4 Northumberland 1,928 3,006 0.6 Gateshead 1,262 2,081 0.6 Newcastle 9,140 2,822 3.2 North Tyneside 1,066 1,932 0.6 South Tyneside 756 1,576 0.5 Sunderland 3,740 2,988 1.3 Yorkshire Regional Health Authority Hull 6,797 3,103 2.2 East Yorkshire 1,365 1,866 0.7 Grimsby 1,369 1,597 0.9 Scunthorpe 2,907 1,934 1.5 Northallerton 784 1,126 0.7 York 2,572 2,593 1.0 Scarborough 1,769 1,426 1.2 Harrogate 1,759 1,339 1.3 Bradford 6,874 3,388 2.0 Airedale 2,404 1,729 1.4 Calderdale 972 1,917 0.5 Huddersfield 2,200 2,125 1.0 Dewsbury 560 1,644 0.3 Leeds Western 4,476 3,601 1.2 Leeds Esstern 5,144 3,504 1.5 Wakefield 2,216 1,422 1.6 Pontefract 2,429 1,680 1.4 Trent Regional Health Authority North Derbyshire 2,652 3,610 0.7 Southern Derbyshire 6,350 5,220 1.2 Leicestershire 8,169 8,722 0.9 North Lincolnshire 2,672 2,657 1.0 South Lincolnshire 4,169 2,946 1.4 Bassetlaw 897 1,042 0.9 Central Nottinghamshire 5,754 2,851 2.0 Nottingham 7,570 6,166 1.2 Barnsley 2,371 2,233 1.1 Doncaster 4,851 2,885 1.7 Rotherham 4,385 2,527 1.7 Sheffield 11,002 5,387 2.0 East Anglian Regional Health Authority Cambridge 4,953 2,686 1.8 Peterborough 3,634 1,966 1.8 West Suffolk 2,592 2,249 1.2
§ Mr. Newton[pursuant to his reply, 23 March 1987. c.76]: Information on in-patient waiting lists, and total resident populations is given in the following table. A significant, though varying, proportion of patients on the waiting list are referred by general practitioners in other districts. The relevant population for comparison is therefore the "catchment" population which can, and in many cases does, vary substantially from the resident population. The percentage figures may therefore have little significance, and any national ranking based on them may be seriously misleading.
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District Health Authority Total cases Resident population (hundreds) Total cases as a percentage of resident population East Suffolk 3,336 3,152 1.1 Norwich 6,936 4,606 1.5 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 3,484 1,920 1.8 West Norfolk and Wisbech 2,105 1,813 1.2 Huntingdon 820 1,255 0.7 North-West Thames Regional Health Authority North Bedfordshire 2,039 2,420 0.8 South Bedfordshire 2,354 2,747 0.9 North Hertfordshire 3,035 1,866 1.6 East Hertfordshire 1,197 2,927 0.4 North West Hertfordshire 1,896 2,617 0.7 South West Hetfordshire 2,054 2,451 0.8 Barnet 4,059 3,012 1.3 Harrow 1,257 2,017 0.6 Hillingdon 7,790 2,321 3.4 Hounslow and Spelthorne 5,337 2,858 1.9 Ealing 1,815 2,924 0.6 Brent 1,997 2,549 0.8 Paddington and North Kensington 3,289 1,226 2.7 Riverside 5,591 2,884 1.9 North-East Thames Regional Health Authority Basildon and Thurrock 6,071 2,807 2.2 Mid Essex 5,049 2,838 1.8 North East Essex 3,532 2,950 1.2 West Essex 4,861 2,551 1.9 Southend 3,414 3,191 1.1 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 6,636 4,581 1.4 Hampstead 2,668 1,073 2.5 Bloomsbury 14,733 1,297 11.4 Islington 2,509 1,679 1.5 City and Hackney 7,112 1,926 3.7 Newham 1,188 2,086 0.6 Tower Hamlets 7,021 1,471 4.8 Enfield 2,997 2,650 1.1 Haringey 928 1,972 0.5 Redbridge 2,095 2,280 0.9 Waltham Forest 4,112 2,162 1.9 South-East Thames Regional Health Authority Brighton 3,762 2,970 1.3 Eastbourne 2,745 2,236 1.2 Hastings 2,951 1,618 1.8 South East Kent 2,601 2,616 1.0 Canterbury and Thanet 4,507 2,996 1.5 Dartford and Gravesham 4,434 2,214 2.0 Maidstone 2,410 1,941 1.2 Medway 3,202 3,223 1.0 Tunbridge Wells 4,869 1,962 2.5 Bexley 1,535 2,185 0.7 Greenwich 2,805 2,162 1.3 Bromley 2,107 2,979 0.7 West Lambeth 7,702 1,626 4.7 Camberwell 2,616 2,120 1.2 Lewisham and North Southwark 8,522 3,172 2.7 South-West Thames Regional Health Authority North West Surrey 2,706 2,081 1.3 West Surrey and North East Hampshire 4,440 2,770 1.6 South West Surrey 3,041 1,835 1.7 Mid Surrey 2,490 1,667 1.5 East Surrey 1,935 1,861 1.0 Chichester 2,508 1,757 1.4 Mid Downs 2,190 2,719 0.8 Worthing 3,195 2,401 1.3 Croydon 2,146 3,190 0.7 Kingston and Esher 2,619 1,794 1.5 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 3,233 2,299 1.4 Wandsworth 2,838 1,904 1.5 Merton and Sutton 2,732 3,341 0.8 Wessex Regional Health Authority East Dorset 5,585 4,348 1.3 West Dorset 1,992 1,929 1.0 270W271W
District Health Authority Total cases Resident population (hundreds) Total cases as a percentage of resident population Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 7,139 5,243 1.4 Southampton and South West Hampshire 8,385 4,140 2.0 Winchester 2,484 2,082 1.2 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 2,764 2,144 1.3 Salisbury 4,335 1,221 3.6 Swindon 2,924 2,245 1.3 Bath 5,535 3,958 1.4 Isle of Wight 1,583 1,229 1.3 Oxford Regional Health Authority East Berkshire 7,670 3,598 2.1 West Berkshire 4,508 4,367 1.0 Aylesbury Vale 3,416 1,394 2.5 Wycombe 1,181 2,721 0.4 Milton Keynes 2,464 1,532 1.6 Kettering 3,201 2,498 1.3 Northampton 5,020 2,963 1.7 Oxfordshire 5,789 5,300 1.1 South- Western Regional Health Authority Bristol and Weston 8,319 3,628 2.3 Frenchay 3,378 2,188 1.5 Southmead 1,760 2,309 0.8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 4,938 4,438 1.1 Exeter 4,639 3,009 1.5 North Devon 1,487 1,299 1.1 Plymouth 5,453 3,248 1.7 Torbay 2,042 2,324 0.9 Cheltenham 2,126 2,069 1.0 Gloucester 4,464 3,045 1.5 Somerset 5,080 3,945 1.3 West Midlands Regional Health Authority Bromsgrove and Redditch 2,003 1,627 1.2 Herefordshire 2,890 1,527 1.9 Kidderminster and District 1,329 1,011 1.3 Worcester and District 3,276 2,343 1.4 Shropshire 8,161 3,903 2.1 Mid Staffordshire 1,609 3,061 0.5 North Stafforshire 9,159 4,630 2.0 South East Staffordshire 2,721 2,513 1.1 Rugby 553 856 0.6 North Warwickshire 2,006 1,727 1.2 South Warwickshire 2,871 2,214 1.3 Central Birmingham 5,448 1,799 3.0 East Birmingham 3,367 2,017 1.7 North Birmingham 1,564 1,634 1.0 South Birmingham 7,794 2,491 3.1 West Birmingham 4,100 2,134 1.9 Coventry 5,729 3,122 1.8 Dudley 3,960 3,008 1.3 Sandwell 1,425 3,033 0.5 Solihull 2,016 2,019 1.0 Walsall 2,758 2,629 1.0 Wolverhampton 4,522 2,532 1.8 Mersey Regional Health Authority Chester 2,114 1,779 1.2 Crewe 4,600 2,457 1.9 Halton 268 1,423 0.2 Macclesfield 880 1,784 0.5 Warrington 1,824 1,792 1.0 Liverpool 8,657 4,915 1.8 St. Helens and Knowsley 3,955 3,546 1.1 Southport and Formby 1,179 1,180 1.0 South Sefton 3,519 1,804 2.0 Wirral 3,130 3,554 0.9 North-Western Regional Health Authority Lancaster 2,264 1,285 1.8 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 4,477 3,173 1.4 Preston 4,399 1,244 3.5 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 2,401 2,723 0.9 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 2,386 2,301 1.0 West Lancashire 2,210 1,075 2.1
District Health Authority Total cases Resident population (hundreds) Total cases as a percentage of resident population Chorley and South Ribble 720 1,927 0.4 Bolton 2,835 2,612 1.1 Bury 711 1,733 0.4 North Manchester 2,609 1,468 1.8 Central Manchester 6,104 1,260 4.8 South Manchester 5,942 1,783 3.3 Oldham 4,670 2,197 2.1 Rochdale 2,798 2,136 1.3 Salford 4,378 2,400 1.8 Stockport 4,367 2,912 1.5 Tameside and Glossop 1,614 2,449 0.7 Trafford 1,637 2,178 0.8 Wigan 4,621 3,067 1.5
§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will set out, region by region, the hospital urgent in-patient waiting list in each district, together with the number of urgent cases waiting more than a month, the percentage the latter presents of the former and their national ranking by that percentage;
(2) if he will set out, region by region, the hospital non-urgent in-patient waiting list in each health district together with the number of non-urgent cases waiting more than a year, the percentage the latter represents of the former and their national ranking by that percentage.
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Number of urgent cases and number of urgent cases waiting for more than one month on in-patient wailing list at 30 September 1986 with over one month cases as a percentage of all cases District Health Authority Total urgent cases Number waiting over one month Percentage of urgent cases waiting over one month Northern Regional Health Authority Hartlepool 45 5 11.1 North Tees 0 0 — South Tees 137 48 35.0 East Cumbria 4 1 25.0 South Cumbria 3 1 33.3 West Cumbria 32 7 21.9 Darlington 11 10 90.9 Durham 30 7 23.3 North West Durham 11 0 0.0 South West Durham 0 0 — Northumberland 207 175 84.5 Gateshead 26 13 50.0 Newcastle 1,304 855 65.6 North Tyneside 6 0 0.0 South Tyneside 0 0 — Sunderland 139 112 80.6 Yorkshire Regional Heath Authority Hull 0 0 — East Yorkshire 0 0 — Grimsby 11 0 0.0 Scunthorpe 0 0 — Northallerton 0 0 — York 12 0 0.0 Scarborough 34 8 23.5 Harrogate 29 15 51.7 Bradford 186 89 47.8 Airdale 102 72 70.6 Calderdale 11 0 0.0 Huddersfield 0 0 — Dewsbury 5 0 0.0 Leeds Western 443 341 77.0 Leeds Eastern 493 433 87.8 Wakefield 29 8 27.6 Pontefract 369 293 79.4
§ Mr. Newton[pursuant to his reply, 23 March 1987, c. 76.]: Information on the numbers of urgent cases and non-urgent cases in each district and the percentages waiting over a month and a year respectively are given in the following tables. National ranking according to these percentages would be misleading since in many districts the actual numbers waiting are very low. Nor is there any common definition of what constitutes an "urgent" case. That means that comparison between districts, even in terms of actual numbers, has little significance.
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District Health Authority Total urgent cases Number waiting over one month Percentage of urgent cases waiting over one month Trent Regional Health Authority North Derbyshire 125 42 33.6 Southern Derbyshire 219 117 53.4 Leicestershire 875 352 40.2 North Lincolnshire 89 48 53.9 South Lincolnshire 134 63 47.0 Bassetlaw 45 32 71. Central Nottinghamshire 137 36 26.3 Nottingham 52 13 25.0 Barnsley 90 10 11.1 Doncaster 426 255 59.9 Rotherham 105 49 46.7 Sheffield 1,515 1,008 66.5 East Anglian Regional Health Authority Cambridge 638 418 65.5 Peterborough 62 40 64.5 West Suffolk 53 34 64.2 East Suffolk 152 68 44.7 Norwich 1,227 942 76.8 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 288 240 83.3 West Norfolk and Wisbech 9 0 0.0 Huntingdon 79 44 55.7 North-West Thames Regional Health Authority North Bedfordshire 2 2 100.0 South Bedfordshire 1 0 0.0 North Hertfordshire 33 15 45.5 East Hertfordshire 8 0 0.0 North West Hertfordshire 9 0 0.0 South West Hertfordshire 29 25 86.2 Barnet 543 158 29.1 Harrow 4 4 100.0 Hillingdon 803 512 63.8 Hounslow and Spelthorne 303 160 52.8 Ealing 364 316 86.8 Brent 19 9 47.4 Paddington and North Kensington 151 121 80.1 Riverside 813 751 92.4 North-East Thames Regional Health Authority Basildon and Thurrock 963 705 73.2 Mid Essex 239 142 59.4 North East Essex 284 158 55.6 West Essex 96 79 82.3 Southend 695 398 57.3 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 143 67 46.9 Hampstead 43 23 53.5 Bloomsbury 702 154 21.9 Islington 404 336 83.2 City and Hackney 2,571 1,322 51.4 Newham 73 65 89.0 Tower Hamlets 1,629 1,400 85.9 Enfield 53 1 1.9 Haringey 113 30 26.5 Redbridge 95 83 87.4 Waltham Forest 97 50 51.5 South-East Thames Regional Health Authority Brighton 162 64 39.5 Eastbourne 67 40 59.7 Hastings 147 98 66.7 South East Kent 5 0 0.0 Canterbury and Thanet 387 157 40.6 Dartford and Gravesham 35 1 2.9 Maidstone 78 40 51.3 Medway 138 60 43.5 Tunbridge Wells 318 213 67.0 Bexley 0 0 — Greenwich 34 0 0.0 Bromley 40 0 0.0 West Lambeth 1,796 735 40.9 Camberwell 178 83 46.6 Lewisham and North Southwark 973 778 80.0
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District Health Authority Total urgent cases Number waiting over one month Percentage of urgent cases wailing over one month South-West Thames Regional Health Authority North West Surrey 52 32 61.5 West Surrey and North East Hampshire 1,415 960 67.8 South West Surrey 99 15 15.2 Mid Surrey 42 12 28.6 East Surrey 195 54 27.7 Chichester 125 77 61.6 Mid Downs 114 45 39.5 Worthing 331 199 60.1 Croydon 96 52 54.2 Kingston and Esher 336 209 62.2 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 169 119 70.4 Wandsworth 298 129 43.3 Morton and Sutton 307 145 47.2 Wessex Regional Health Authority East Dorset 1,050 692 65.9 West Dorset 199 157 78.9 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 381 163 42.8 Southampton and South West Hampshire 1,118 735 65.7 Winchester 114 23 20.2 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 46 20 43.5 Salisbury 191 73 38.2 Swindon 52 9 17.3 Bath 464 353 76.1 Isle of Wight 9 0 0.0 Oxford Regional Health Authority East Berkshire 499 374 74.9 West Berkshire 164 57 34.8 Aylesbury Vale 41 21 51.2 Wycombe 24 0 0.0 Milton Keynes 62 34 54.8 Kettering 89 66 74.2 Northampton 750 647 86.3 Oxfordshire 148 24 16.2 South- Western Regional Health Authority Bristol and Weston 769 303 39.4 Frenchay 89 31 34.8 Southmead 34 13 38.2 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 257 197 76.7 Exeter 174 89 51.1 North Devon 15 0 0.0 Plymouth 112 39 34.8 Torbay 40 33 82.5 Cheltenham 1 1 100.0 Gloucester 306 130 42.5 Somerset 846 459 54.3 West Midlands Regional Health Authority Bromsgrove and Redditch 25 2 8.0 Herefordshire 84 67 79.8 Kidderminster and District 19 0 0.0 Worcester and District 59 42 71.2 Shropshire 385 235 61.0 Mid Staffordshire 212 34 16.0 North Staffordshire 1,095 897 81.9 South East Staffordshire 30 24 80.0 Rugby 0 0 — North Warwickshire 28 4 14.3 South Warwickshire 46 27 58.7 Central Birmingham 722 573 79.4 East Birmingham 415 262 63.1 North Birmingham 63 5 7.9 South Birmingham 1,011 895 88.5 West Birmingham 119 80 67.2 Coventry 535 339 63.4 Dudley 116 47 40.5 Sandwell 0 0 — Solihull 5 5 100.0 Walsall 24 11 45.8 Wolverhampton 154 121 78.6
District Health Authority Total urgent cases Number waiting over one month Percentage of urgent cases nailing over one month Mersey Regional Health Authority Chester 77 21 27.3 Crewe 209 172 82.3 Halton 0 0 — Macclesfield 147 93 63.3 Warrington 19 18 94.7 Liverpool 504 344 68.3 St. Helens and Knowsley 75 49 65.3 Southport and Formby 0 0 — South Sefton 64 25 39.1 Wirral 114 47 41.2 North-Western Regional Health Authority Lancaster 32 5 15.6 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 620 498 80.3 Preston 56 10 17.9 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 18 1 5.6 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 306 250 81.7 West Lancashire 12 0 0.0 Chorley and South Ribble 6 1 16.7 Bolton 85 59 69.4 Bury 0 0 — North Manchester 81 37 45.7 Central Manchester 157 74 47.1 South Manchester 582 148 25.4 Oldham 366 270 73.8 Rochdale 108 68 63.0 Salford 244 49 20.1 Stockport 440 319 72.5 Tameside and Glossop 120 54 45.0 Trafford 12 4 33.3 Wigan 28 8 28.6
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Number of non-urgent cases and number of non-urgent cases waiting for more than one month on in-patient waiting list at 30 September 1986 with over one month cases as a percentage of all non-urgent cases District Health Authority Total non-urgent cases Number waiting over one year Percentage of non-urgent cases waiting over one year Northern Regional Health Authority Hartlepool 1,416 300 21.2 North Tees 925 24 2.6 South Tees 5,859 1,671 28.5 East Cumbria 3,249 843 25.9 South Cumbria 1,330 253 19.0 West Cumbria 1,183 114 9.6 Darlington 2,438 612 25.1 Durham 965 71 7.4 North West Durham 679 138 20.3 South West Durham 671 104 15.5 Northumberland 1,721 318 18.5 Gateshead 1,236 196 15.9 Newcastle 7,836 1,159 14.8 North Tyneside 1,060 134 12.6 South Tyneside 756 66 8.7 Sunderland 3,601 423 11.7 Yorkshire Regional Health Authority Hull 6,797 2,434 35.8 East Yorkshire 1,365 259 19.0 Grimsby 1,358 111 8.2 Scunthorpe 2,907 801 27.6 Northallerton 784 6 0.8 York 2,560 246 9.6 Scarborough 1,735 130 7.5 Harrogate 1,730 210 12.1 Bradford 6,688 1,422 21.3 Airedale 2,302 777 33.8 Calderdale 961 68 7.1 Huddersfield 2,200 286 13.0 Dewsbury 555 123 22.2 Leeds Western 4,033 736 18.2 Leeds Eastern 4,651 962 20.7 Wakefield 2,187 190 8.7
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District Health Authority Total non-urgent cases Number waiting over one year Percentage of non-urgent cases waiting over one year Pontefract 2,060 559 27.1 Trent Regional Health Authority North Derbyshire 2,527 818 32.4 Southern Derbyshire 6,131 982 16.0 Leicestershire 7,294 1,146 15.7 North Lincolnshire 2,583 372 14.4 South Lincolnshire 4,035 1,370 34.0 Bassetlaw 852 158 18.5 Central Nottinghamshire 5,617 2,413 43.0 Nottingham 7,518 2,150 28.6 Barnsley 2,281 214 9.4 Doncaster 4,425 1,378 31.1 Rotherham 4,280 1,509 35.3 Sheffield 8,487 3,601 38.0 East Anglian Regional Health Authority Cambridge 4,315 1,580 36.6 Peterborough 3,572 519 14.5 West Suffolk 2,539 536 21.1 East Suffolk 3,184 664 20.9 Norwich 5,709 2,192 38.4 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 3,196 1,018 31.9 West Norfolk and Wisbech 2,096 263 12.5 Huntingdon 741 21 2.8 North-West Thames Regional Health Authority North Bedfordshire 2,037 595 29.2 South Bedfordshire 2,353 286 12.2 North Hertfordshire 3,002 772 25.7 East Hertfordshire 1,189 67 5.6 North West Hertfordshire 1,887 109 5.8 South West Hertfordshire 2,025 231 11.4 Barnet 3,516 840 23.9 Harrow 1,253 95 7.6 Hillingdon 6,987 4,049 58.0 Hounslow and Spelthorne 5,034 1,269 25.2 Ealing 1,451 976 67.3 Brent 1,978 267 13.5 Paddington and North Kensington 3,138 367 11.7 Riverside 4,778 914 19.1 North-East Thames Regional Health Authority Basildon and Thurrock 5,108 2,485 48.6 Mid Essex 4,810 1,027 21.4 North East Essex 3,248 437 13.5 West Essex 4,765 914 19.2 Southend 2,719 735 27.0 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 6,493 2,696 41.5 Hampstead 2,625 714 27.2 Bloomsbury 14,031 3,495 24.9 Islington 2,105 709 33.7 City and Hackney 4,541 1,732 38.1 Newham 1,115 165 14.8 Tower Hamlets 5,392 3,046 56.5 Enfield 2,944 717 24.4 Haringey 815 67 8.2 Redbridge 2,000 357 17.9 Waltham Forest 4,015 747 18.6 South-East Thames Regional Health Authority Brighton 3,600 665 18.5 Eastbourne 2,678 616 23.0 Hastings 2,804 493 17.6 South East Kent 2,596 246 9.5 Canterbury and Thanet 4,120 932 22.6 Dartford and Gravesham 4,399 850 19.3 Maidstone 2,332 455 19.5 Medway 3,064 446 14.6 Tunbridge Wells 4,551 1,622 35.6 Bexley 1,535 116 7.6 Greenwich 2,771 453 16.3 Bromley 2,067 534 25.8 West Lambeth 5,906 2,864 48.5 Camberwell 2,438 313 12.8
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District Health Authority Total non-urgent cases Number waiting over one year Percentage of non-urgent cases waiting over one year Lewisham and North Southwark 7,549 2,268 30.0 South-West Thames Regional Health Authority North West Surrey 2,654 418 15.7 West Surrey and North East Hampshire 3,025 731 24.2 South West Surrey 2,942 649 22.1 Mid Surrey 2,448 910 37.2 East Surrey 1,740 327 18.8 Chichester 2,383 834 35.0 Mid Downs 2,076 277 13.3 Worthing 2,864 663 23.1 Croydon 2,050 261 12.7 Kingston and Esher 2,283 889 38.9 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 3,064 1,685 55.0 Wandsworth 2,540 366 14.4 Merton and Sutton 2,425 281 11.6 Wessex Regional Health Authority East Dorset 4,535 869 19.2 West Dorset 1,793 379 21.1 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 6,758 1,395 20.6 Southampton and South West Hampshire 7,267 2,285 31.4 Winchester 2,370 738 31.1 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 2,718 614 22.6 Salisbury 4,144 1,359 32.8 Swindon 2,872 359 12.5 Bath 5,071 1,333 26.3 Isle of Wight 1,574 93 5.9 Oxfordshire Regional Health Authority East Berkshire 7,171 2,419 33.7 West Berkshire 4,344 655 15.1 Aylesbury Vale 3,375 1,376 40.8 Wycombe 1,157 102 8.8 Milton Keynes 2,402 677 28.2 Kettering 3,112 825 26.5 Northampton 4,270 1,647 38.6 Oxfordshire 5,641 855 15.2 South-Western Regional Health Authority Bristol and Weston 7,550 1,369 18.1 Frenchay 3,289 1,775 54.0 Southmead 1,726 392 22.7 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 4,681 1,517 32.4 Exeter 4,465 759 17.0 North Devon 1,472 158 10.7 Plymouth 5,341 1,627 30.5 Torbay 2,002 404 20.2 Cheltenham 2,125 617 29.0 Gloucester 4,158 1,065 25.6 Somerset 4,234 1,427 33.7 West Midlands Regional Health Authority Bromsgrove and Redditch 1,978 369 18.7 Herefordshire 2,806 869 31.0 Kidderminster and District 1,310 148 11.3 Worcester and District 3,217 598 18.6 Shropshire 7,776 2,299 29.6 Mid Staffordshire 1,397 294 21.0 North Staffordshire 8,064 2,976 36.9 South East Staffordshire 2,691 337 12.5 Rugby 553 92 16.6 North Warwickshire 1,978 449 22.7 South Warwickshire 2,825 917 32.5 Central Birmingham 4,726 1,231 26.0 East Birmingham 2,952 1,369 46.4 North Birmingham 1,501 317 21.1 South Birmingham 6,783 3,620 53.4 West Birmingham 3,981 1,101 27.7 Coventry 5,194 1,874 36.1 Dudley 3,844 889 23.1 Sandwell 1,425 145 10.2 Solihull 2,011 469 23.3 Walsall 2,734 699 25.6 Wolverhampton 4,368 1,108 25.4
District Health Authority Total non-urgent cases Number waiting over one year Percentage of non-urgent cases waiting over one year Mersey Regional Health Authority Chester 2,037 303 14.9 Crewe 4,391 2,088 47.6 Halton 268 7 2.6 Macclesfield 733 230 31.4 Warrington 1,805 437 24.2 Liverpool 8,153 1,445 17.7 St. Helens and Knowsley 3,880 971 25.0 Southport and Formby 1,179 296 25.1 South Sefton 3,455 544 15.7 Wirral 3,016 336 11.1 North-Western Regional Health Authority Lancaster 2,232 522 23.4 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 3,857 821 21.3 Preston 4,343 1,412 32.5 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 2,383 495 20.8 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 2,080 677 32.5 West Lancashire 2,198 364 16.6 Chorley and South Ribble 714 272 38.1 Bolton 2,750 631 22.9 Bury 711 21 3.0 North Manchester 2,528 350 13.8 Central Manchester 5,947 1,332 22.4 South Manchester 5,360 1,261 23.5 Oldham 4,304 1,979 46.0 Rochdale 2,690 876 32.6 Salford 4,134 1,015 24.6 Stockport 3,927 1,194 30.4 Tameside and Glossop 1,494 258 17.3 Trafford 1,625 116 7.1 Wigan 4,593 1,262 27.5