§ Sir Russell Johnstonasked 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 MacKayStatistics 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:
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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.