Waiting Lists (Hansard, 6 December 1988)

§ Mrs. Dunwoody
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are currently on National Health Service waiting lists for general surgery(a) in the Crewe and Nantwich district health authority and (b) nationally.

§ Mr. Mellor
The latest figures show that, at 31 March 1988, there were 1,157 patients on the inpatient waiting list for general surgery in Crewe district health authority. The corresponding figure for England was 133,079.

§ Mr. Patnick
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what were the in-patient waiting list figures in March for the Trent regional health authority; and what were the figures for the previous year and 1979.

§ Mr. Mellor
The information is given in the table.

In-patient waiting lists, Trent regional health authority

Total of all cases

March 1979 72,864

March 1987 57,111

¹ March 1988 54,894

¹ on a comparable basis with previous statistics.

In-patient waiting lists, Trent regional health authority
	Total of all cases
March 1979	72,864
March 1987	57,111
¹ March 1988	54,894
¹ on a comparable basis with previous statistics.