HC Deb 26 October 1987 vol 121 cc180-1W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) why the hospital waiting list figures for England for March issued by his Department included no figures for Hampstead district health authority;

(2) what estimates of hospital waiting lists for Hampstead district health authority for March were included in the national, regional and sub-regional figures;

(3) what were the actual hospital waiting list figures for Hampstead district health authority for March.

Mr. Newton

Computing problems prevented the Hampstead district health authority from producing hospital waiting list figures for March 1987.

The table shows the estimates which were included in the national and regional summaries. These were produced by assuming that the Hampstead waiting lists experienced the same percentage changes since September 1986 as the rest of North East Thames region.

Estimated number of Patients on in-patient waiting list at 31 March 1987 District health authority: Hampstead
Numbers Percentage
Urgent cases Non-urgent cases Non-urgent cases on list more than one year as percentage of total
Specialty Total All On list more than one month All On list more than one year
General medicine 27 11 6 16 2 7.4
Paediatrics 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Thoracic medicine 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Dermatology 10 3 2 7 0 0.0
Neurology 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Cardiology 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Rehabilitation 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Genito-urinary medicine 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Rheumatology 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Geriatrics 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Units for younger disabled 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
General surgery 388 36 18 352 86 22.2
Ear, nose and throat 400 25 16 375 104 26.0
Traumatic and orthopaedic 798 104 80 694 276 34.6
Ophthalmology 294 19 12 275 37 12.6
Radiotherapy 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Urology 104 19 10 85 17 16.3
Plastic surgery 265 30 22 235 136 51.3
Thoracic surgery 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Oral surgery 180 9 5 171 89 49.4
Orthodontics 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Neurosurgery 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Gynaecology 192 22 14 170 18 9.4
Psychiatry children 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mental handicap 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Mental illness 42 4 3 38 14 33.3
Adolescent psychiatry units 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
G.P. other 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
G.P. dental 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Accident and emergency 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Anaesthetics 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Audiological medicine 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Cardiac surgery 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Child assessment unit 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Clin. ph'macology and therapeutics 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Endocrinology 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Forensic psychiatry 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Gastroenterology 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Haematology 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Medical oncology 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Nephrology 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Paediatric surgery 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Pathology 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Psychogeriatric 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Radiology 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Restorative dentistry 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Spinal injuries unit 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Paediatric dentistry 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Surgical specialties—sub-total 2,621 264 177 2,357 763 29.1
All specialties—total 2,700 282 188 2,418 779 28.9