HC Deb 17 February 1988 vol 127 cc632-8W
Ms. Harman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the numbers in each district health authority waiting for eye treatment as(a) in-patients (i) urgent over one month and (ii) non-urgent over one year, and (b) out-patients.

Mr. Newton

[holding answer 11 February 1988]: The available information is given in the table.

Total cases Urgent Cases Non-urgent Cases
All On list more than one month All On list more than one year
Huddersfield 211 0 0 211 2
Dewsbury 52 0 0 52 2
Leeds Western 446 12 8 434 55
Leeds Eastern 632 0 0 632 53
Wakefield 296 0 0 296 16
Pontefract 0 0 0 0 0
Trent RHA1
North Derbyshire 112 0 0 0 44
Southern Derbyshire 699 0 0 0 80
Leicestershire 727 0 0 0 29
North Lincolnshire 341 0 0 0 21
South Lincolnshire 176 0 0 0 14
Bassetlaw 0 0 0 0 0
Central Nottinghamshire 71 0 0 0 0
Nottingham 651 0 0 0 16
Barnsley 160 0 0 0 0
Doncaster 65 0 0 0 0
Rotherham 499 0 0 0 176
Sheffield 685 0 0 0 37
East Anglian RHA
Cambridge 201 26 7 175 2
Peterborough 381 0 0 381 23
West Suffolk 365 12 7 353 46
East Suffolk 498 0 0 498 42
Norwich 281 0 0 281 0
Great Yarmouth and Waveney 170 0 0 170 7
West Norfolk and Wisbech 101 0 0 101 0
Huntingdon 152 2 0 150 3
North West Thames RHA
North Bedfordshire 144 0 0 144 27
South Bedfordshire 410 0 0 410 27
North Hertfordshire 164 0 0 164 9
East Hertfordshire 0 0 0 0 0
North West Hertfordshire 210 0 0 210 59
South West Hertfordshire 170 4 4 166 36
Barnet 123 0 0 123 0
Harrow 0 0 0 0 0
Hillingdon 265 0 0 265 103
Hounslow and Spelthorne 586 0 0 586 0
Ealing 0 0 0 0 0
Brent 476 17 15 459 138
Paddington and North Kensington 414 0 0 414 0
Riverside 719 61 48 658 78
North East Thames RHA
Basildon and Thurrock 41 1 0 40 0
Mid Essex 326 1 1 325 41
North East Essex 282 0 0 282 7
West Essex 297 44 44 253 139
Southend 56 39 21 17 4
Barking, Havering and Brentwood 356 6 3 350 10
Hampstead2
Bloomsbury 0 0 0 0 0
Islington 0 0 0 0 0
City and Hackney 53 33 15 20 5
Newham 0 0 0 0 0
Tower Hamlets 11 3 3 8 6
Enfield 0 0 0 0 0
Haringey 278 1 0 277 50
Redbridge 5 0 0 5 0
Waltham Forest 366 7 0 359 0
South East Thames RHA
Brighton 148 9 0 139 4
Eastbourne 286 1 0 285 31
Hastings 128 7 0 121 10
South East Kent 331 0 0 331 16
Canterbury and Thanet 497 29 24 468 187
Dartford and Gravesham 0 0 0 0 0

Total cases Urgent Cases Non-urgent Cases
All On list more than one month All On list more than one year
Maidstone 441 0 0 441 22
Medway 0 0 0 0 0
Tunbridge Wells 239 48 28 191 24
Bexley 508 0 0 508 0
Greenwich 279 0 0 279 4
Bromley 0 0 0 0 0
West Lambeth 647 49 1 598 12
Camberwell 166 6 4 160 1
Lewisham and North Southwark 67 3 3 64 6
South West Thames RHA
North West Surrey 67 3 0 64 1
West Surrey and North East Hants 1,028 183 180 845 353
South West Surrey 234 0 0 234 30
Mid Surrey 754 13 4 741 411
East Surrey 624 16 16 608 150
Chichester 66 3 0 63 0
Mid Downs 0 0 0 0 0
Worthing 555 44 34 511 84
Croydon 200 1 1 199 0
Kingston and Esher 375 78 47 297 44
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 0 0 0 0 0
Wandsworth 238 0 0 238 4
Merton and Sutton 147 0 0 147 0
Wessex RHA
East Dorset 572 0 0 572 20
West Dorset 257 4 0 253 0
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 899 0 0 899 137
Southampton and South West Hampshire 560 0 0 560 0
Winchester 357 7 3 350 63
Basingstoke and North Hampshire 184 4 1 180 48
Salisbury 572 12 0 560 0
Swindon 360 0 0 360 19
Bath 555 16 8 539 99
Isle of Wight 64 0 0 64 0
Oxford RHA
East Berkshire 763 6 3 757 286
West Berkshire 298 0 0 298 0
Aylesbury Vale 358 0 0 358 19
Wycombe 0 0 0 0 0
Milton Keynes 54 1 0 53 2
Kettering 8 0 0 8 0
Northampton 82 0 0 82 5
Oxfordshire 596 0 0 596 12
South Western RHA
Bristol and Weston 1,240 8 2 1,232 169
Frenchay 0 0 0 0 0
Southmead 0 0 0 0 0
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 597 21 11 576 89
Exeter 289 0 0 289 18
North Devon 56 0 0 56 2
Plymouth 554 0 0 554 179
Torbay 403 36 1 367 96
Cheltenham 178 0 0 178 0
Gloucester 507 6 0 501 105
Somerset 356 13 3 343 17
West Midlands RHA
Bromsgrove and Redditch 439 0 0 439 72
Herefordshire 251 0 0 251 0
Kidderminster and District 175 0 0 175 2
Worcester and District 269 0 0 269 37
Shropshire 813 0 0 813 286
Mid Staffordshire 0 0 0 0 0
North Staffordshire 642 5 2 637 168
South East Staffordshire 153 0 0 153 19

Total cases Urgent Cases Non-urgent Cases
All On list more than one month All On list more than one year
Rugby 0 0 0 0 0
North Warwickshire 0 0 0 0 0
South Warwickshire 233 0 0 233 75
Central Birmingham 203 39 33 164 64
East Birmingham 651 52 41 599 332
North Birmingham 0 0 0 0 0
South Birmingham 463 20 20 443 47
West Birmingham 973 62 40 911 307
Coventry 1,000 12 2 988 273
Dudley 295 51 37 244 89
Sandwell 331 0 0 331 115
Solihull 0 0 0 0 0
Walsall 6 0 0 6 0
Wolverhampton 582 139 128 443 228
Mersey RHA
Chester 417 0 0 417 12
Crewe 219 0 0 219 48
Halton 0 0 0 0 0
Macclesfield 0 0 0 0 0
Warrington 185 0 0 185 18
Liverpool 631 12 7 619 16
St. Helens and Knowsley 89 3 1 86 0
Southport and Formby 419 0 0 419 140
South Sefton 26 0 0 26 4
Wirral 371 0 0 371 39
North Western RHA
Lancaster 177 0 0 177 34
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 665 50 44 615 162
Preston 453 0 0 453 27
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 365 0 0 365 29
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 146 9 6 137 29
West Lancashire 0 0 0 0 0
Chorley and South Ribble 0 0 0 0 0
Bolton 508 1 0 507 154
Bury 0 0 0 0 0
North Manchester 0 0 0 0 0
Central Manchester 2,003 0 0 2,003 246
South Manchester 0 0 0 0 0
Oldham 770 0 0 770 289
Rochdale 612 59 35 553 249
Salford 21 0 0 21 2
Stockport 491 1 1 490 59
Tameside and Glossop 19 0 0 19 2
Trafford 0 0 0 0 0
Wigan 928 5 0 923 426
All Special health authorities
The Hospitals for Sick Children 52 1 0 51 0
The National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases 0 0 0 0 0
Moorfields Eye Hospital 1,387 0 0 1,387 0
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals 0 0 0 0 0
The National Heart and Chest Hospitals 0 0 0 0 0
The Royal Marsden Hospital 0 0 0 0 0
Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 0 0 0 0 0
The Eastman Dental Hospital 0 0 0 0 0
1 Data not available. Imputed figures shown for Non-urgent cases on the waiting list for more than one year.
2 Figures not available.