HC Deb 06 May 1987 vol 115 cc443-4W
Sir Russell Johnston

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will list the number of patients on hospital waiting lists in each of the health board regions in Scotland indicating whether they were in-patients or out-patients, in each of the years 1983 to 1986.

Mr. John MacKay

Statistics on out-patient waiting lists are not held centrally. The numbers on hospital in-patient waiting lists at 30 September in the years in question were as follows:

1983 1984 1985 19861
SCOTLAND 88,338 83,077 77,677 80,862
Argyll and Clyde 7,137 7,627 7,209 6,528
Ayrshire and Arran 5,051 5,045 5,120 4,862
Borders 402 255 318 301
Dumfries and Galloway 2,871 2,529 2,687 3,205
Fife 6,477 6,127 5,816 5,468
Forth Valley 3,547 2,766 2,593 2,558
Grampian 10,247 9,172 8,641 9,969
Greater Glasgow 19,266 18,749 16,006 17,866
Highland 1,941 1,806 2,543 3,040
Lanarkshire 8,282 7,520 6,605 6,249
Lothian 14,717 13,845 13,381 14,341
Orkney 56 54 58 50
Shetland 125 140 145 142
Tayside 8,112 7,369 6,494 6,215
Western Isles 107 73 61 68
1Provisional.

Note: All data exclude Joint User and Contractual Hospitals.