Hospital Waiting Lists

HC Deb 15 February 1988 vol 127 cc485-6W

Mr. Heddle

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in theOfficial Report details of all schemes which his Department has arranged with private health service companies as part of its initiative to reduce hospital waiting lists.

Mr. Newton

A list of the projects currently being funded from regional health authorities' allocations from the waiting list fund for 1987–88 which make use of facilities in the private sector is as follows:

Yorkshire RHAScunthorpe DHA: ENT—70 casesHuddersfield DHA: Breast Surgery—90 casesPontefract DHA: ENT/Gynaecology—306 casesHull DHA: ENT—150 casesEast Anglian RHACambridge DHA: Plastic surgery—50 casesNorth West Thames RHASouth Bedfordshire DHA: ENT—25 casesHounslow and Spelthorne DHA:Surgery—226 casesOphthalmology—50 casesNorth East Thames RHACity and Hackney DHA: ENT—242 cases (2 projects)Southend DHA: Gynaecology—241 casesSouth West Thames RHAWest Surrey/North East Hants DHA: Urology—12 casesTrent RHALeicestershire DHA: 10 CABGsSouth Lincolnshire DHA:Orthopaedics—88 casesOrthopaedics—460 casesSouthern Derbyshire DHA: Gynaecology—54 casesCentral Notts DHA: Orthopaedics—160 casesBarnsley DHA: Gynaecology/Radiology—202 casesDoncaster DHA:General Surgery—170 casesENT—270 casesGynaecology—115 casesRotherham DHA: Surgery 67 casesSheffield DHA:10 CABGsGeneral Surgery—20 casesSurgery—92 casesSouth East Thames RHADartford and Gravesham DHA:Urology—130 casesGeneral Surgery—40 casesBromley DHA: Orthopaedics—22 hipsIn addition some post-operative nursing care has been purchased in the private sector for projects in Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone and Brighton DHAs.Wessex RHAEast Dorset DHA: Orthopaedics—20 casesPortsmouth and South East Hants DHA: Orthopaedics—100 hipsWest Midlands RHASouth East Staffordshire DHA: Orthopaedics—80 casesNorth Staffordshire DHA: Gynaecology—20 casesShropshire DHA: General surgery—100 casesOxford RHAMilton Keynes DHA: Gynaecology—30 casesAylesbury DHA: Plastic surgery—250 casesMersey RHACrewe DHA: Gynaecology: 107 casesNorth Western RHABlackburn DHA: Orthopaedics—33 hipsBurnley DHA:ENT—181 casesOrthopaedics—100 hipsBolton DHA: Ophthalmology—175 casesBury DHA: ENT—225 casesStockport DHA: Urology—42 cases