§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the percentage of patients awaiting operations in the Leeds, West district health authority who have been waiting for(a) under one month, (b) under two months, (c) under three months, (d) under six months, (e) under nine months, (f) under 12 months and (g) between 12 months and two years; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. FatchettTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish the September 1987 figures for in-patient waiting lists, urgent and non-urgent, for each district in the Yorkshire region.
§ Mr. NewtonThe September waiting list figures are being compiled now and will be published as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when Her Majesty's Government intend to publish the quarterly waiting list returned filed by all district health authorities and special health authorities on 31 June 1987.
§ Mr. Newton[holding answer 18 January 1988]: The returns for 30 June were seriously incomplete, due to initial difficulties in some places in switching to the new and more detailed information system. Putting these figures into a form in which they might usefully be published requires extensive work, and we are currently giving priority to the returns for September, which I hope to be able to publish shortly.
§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table for each district health authority and special health authority, showing for each the total numbers of people waiting for treatment in September 1982 compared with the numbers at March 1987, the numerical change and the percentage increase or decrease, listed with the biggest increase first and the largest decrease last.
§ Mr. Newton[pursuant to his reply 18 January 1988, c. 570]: The information requested is given in the table.
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Change September 1982 to March 1987 District Health Authority/Special Health Authority September 1982 March 1987 Number Percentage Hounslow and Spelthorne 3,127 5,863 2,736 87.5 East Surrey 1,257 2,327 1,070 85.1 West Essex 2,555 4,645 2,090 81.8 Lewisham and North Southwark 5,335 9,341 4,006 75.1 Bexley 1,123 1,953 830 73.9 Dartford and Gravesham 2,916 4,846 1,930 66.2 Harrogate 1,274 2,059 785 61.6 City and Hackney 4,586 7,140 2,554 55.7 Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 2,167 3,247 1,080 49.8 Kidderminster and District 1,070 1,585 515 48.1 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 4,474 6,488 2,014 45.0 The Hospital for Sick Children 1,456 2,110 654 44.9 Mid Essex2 3,246 4,672 1,426 43.9 Bloomsbury 9,632 13,446 3,814 39.6 Redbridge 1,719 2,392 673 39.2 Bromsgrove and Redditch 1,475 2,052 577 39.1 Waltham Forest 3,271 4,504 1,233 37.7 West Suffolk 2,027 2,762 735 36.3 West Lambeth 6,038 8,111 2,073 34.3 North Warwickshire 1,944 2,576 632 32.5 South East Staffordshire 2,026 2,679 653 32.2 Worcester and District 2,651 3,477 826 31.2 Tower Hamlets 6,003 7,865 1,862 31.0 Hillingdon 6,009 7,867 1,858 30.9 Wolverhampton 3,677 4,802 1,125 30.6 Herefordshire 2,272 2,945 673 29.6 Lancaster 1,784 2,312 528 29.6 Eastbourne 2,552 3,298 746 29.2 West Surrey and North East Hampshire 3,708 4,763 1,055 28.5 The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases 441 564 123 27.9 South West Surrey 2,385 3,005 620 26.0 North West Surrey 2,315 2,915 600 25.9 Rochdale 2,342 2,933 591 25.2 Winchester 2,309 2,880 571 24.7 Airedale 1,686 2,100 414 24.6 Kettering 2,848 3,546 698 24.5 East Dorset 4,361 5,424 1,063 24.4 St. Helens and Knowsley 3,288 4,074 786 23.9 West Norfolk and Wisbech 1,688 2,088 400 23.7 Paddington and North Kensington 2,813 3,459 646 23.0 West Berkshire 3,256 3,999 743 22.8 Central Manchester 5,358 6,543 1,185 22.1 Cheltenham 1,782 2,157 375 21.0 Trafford 1,301 1,542 241 18.5 Chorley and South Ribble 651 770 119 18.3 Canterbury and Thanet 4,136 4,889 753 18.2 Wycombe 1,134 1,333 199 17.5 Southend 3,248 3,788 540 16.6 Bromley 1,931 2,242 311 16.1 Leicestershire 7,177 8,278 1,101 15.3 Rotherham 3,871 4,461 590 15.2 Bristol and Weston 7,142 8,213 1,071 15.0 East Cumbria 3,323 3,796 473 14.2 Greenwich 2,362 2,687 325 13.8 Hastings 2,547 2,882 335 13.2 Swindon 2,825 3,194 369 13.1 Maidstone 2,190 2,461 271 12.4 Northallerton 623 699 76 12.2 Sandwell 1,721 1,927 206 12.0 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 6,831 7,644 813 11.9 Basildon and Thurrock 5,888 6,541 653 11.1 Peterborough 3,770 4,176 406 10.8 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 4,117 4,546 429 10.4 West Birmingham 4,269 4,699 430 10.1 South Birmingham 6,878 7,569 691 10.0 Leeds Western 4,330 4,758 428 9.9
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Change September 1982 to March 1987 District Health Authority/Special Health Authority September 1982 March 1987 Number Percentage Somerset 4,949 5,436 487 9.8 Brent 1,737 1,903 166 9.6 East Suffolk 3,097 3,381 284 9.2 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 2,313 2,521 208 9.0 North Devon 1,558 1,693 135 8.7 Bradford 6,663 7,172 509 7.6 South West Hertfordshire 1,986 2,136 150 7.6 Exeter 4,436 4,737 301 6.8 South Cumbria 1,152 1,217 65 5.6 Stockport 4,430 4,668 238 5.4 Shropshire 8,441 8,842 401 4.8 Brighton 3,863 4,022 159 4.1 Medway 3,273 3,393 120 3.7 North Hertfordshire 3,155 3,267 112 3.5 South West Durham 803 831 28 3.5 West Lancashire 2,433 2,495 62 2.5 North Staffordshire 8,862 9,058 196 2.2 West Dorset 2,015 2,057 42 2.1 Isle of Wight 1,349 1,368 19 1.4 South Bedfordshire 2,382 2,415 33 1.4 Ealing 1,489 1,504 15 1.0 Mid Surrey 2,150 2,157 7 0.3 Enfield 3,068 3,074 6 0.2 The National Heart and Chest Hospitals 1,073 1,065 -8 -0.7 Southport and Formby 1,373 1,360 -13 -0.9 Salisbury 4,770 4,717 -53 -1.1 Plymouth 5,897 5,800 -97 -1.6 Leeds Eastern 6,169 6,064 -105 -1.7 Hull 7,050 6,911 -139 -2.0 Barnet 3,628 3,545 -83 -2.3 Oldham 5,071 4,925 -146 -2.9 East Berkshire 8,244 7,905 -339 -4.1 Wigan 4,677 4,458 -219 -4.7 Moorfields Eye Hospital 1,458 1,387 -71 -4.9 York 2,710 2,575 -135 -5.0 Salford 5,371 5,101 -270 -5.0 Riverside 5,888 5,590 -298 -5.1 South Lincolnshire 4,428 4,190 -238 -5.4 North East Essex2 3,510 3,296 -214 -6.1 Chester 2,940 2,759 -181 -6.2 Bolton 3,348 3,138 -210 -6.3 North Bedfordshire 2,657 2,421 -236 -8.9 Southampton and South West Hampshire 9,080 8,217 -863 -9.5 Hartlepool 1,841 1,661 -180 -9.8 Liverpool 8,553 7,704 -849 -9.9 Chichester 2,786 2,464 -322 -11.6 Northumberland 1,896 1,668 -228 -12.0 Mid Downs 2,621 2,288 -333 -12.7 Preston 5,287 4,586 -701 -13.3 Camberwell 3,388 2,913 -475 -14.0 Wandsworth 3,239 2,768 -471 -14.5 Calderdale 1,166 996 -170 -14.6 Harrow 1,370 1,168 -202 -14.7 Gateshead 1,661 1,412 -249 -15.0 Gloucester 4,959 4,214 -745 -15.0 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 5,238 4,434 -804 -15.3 Oxfordshire 7,003 5,901 -1,102 -15.7 Walsall 3,324 2,740 -584 -17.6 South Warwickshire 3,194 2,631 -563 -17.6 The Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals 128 105 -23 -18.0 Worthing 3,756 2,058 -698 -18.6 Croydon 3,093 2,518 -575 -18.6 Newcastle 11,524 9,363 -2,161 -18.8 Merton and Sutton 3,639 2,946 -693 -19.0 Pontefract 2,569 2,079 -490 -19.1 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 4,194 3,364 -830 -19.8 South Derbyshire 6,322 4,991 -1,331 -21.1 South Manchester 8,120 6,408 -1,712 -21.1 Scarborough 2,200 1,724 -476 -21.6 Doncaster 6,132 4,686 -1,466 -23.6
Change September 1982 to March 1987 District Health Authority/Special Health Authority September 1982 March 1987 Number Percentage Darlington 3,140 2,397 -743 -23.7 Rugby 864 659 -205 -23.7 Kingston and Esher 3,194 2,418 -776 -24.3 Wirral 4,714 3,564 -1,150 -24.4 Sheffield 14,678 11,051 -3,627 -24.7 Sunderland 4,889 3,659 -1,230 -25.2 Bury 979 731 -248 -25.3 West Cumbria 1,870 1,396 -474 -25.3 East Yorkshire 1,924 1,429 -495 -25.7 Cambridge 6,708 4,945 -1,763 -26.3 Newham 2,222 1,638 -584 -26.3 Tunbridge Wells 6,220 4,566 -1,654 -26.6 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 3,294 2,404 -890 -27.0 North Derbyshire 3,511 2,520 -991 -28.2 East Hertfordshire 1,847 1,325 -522 -28.3 Dudley 5,441 3,889 -1,552 -28.5 Central Birmingham 7,635 5,427 -2,208 -28.9 Wakefield 3,216 2,241 -975 -30.3 South Tyneside 1,047 727 -320 -30.6 Durham 1,489 1,032 -457 -30.7 Solihull 2,278 1,578 -700 -30.7 Central Nottinghamshire 7,154 4,955 -2,199 -30.7 Bath 8,079 5,570 -2,509 -31.1 Crewe 5,128 3,512 -1,616 -31.5 North Lincolnshire 4,129 2,819 -1,310 -31.7 Torbay 2,368 1,602 -766 -32.3 Mid Staffordshire 2,440 1,648 -792 32.5 Barnsley 3,934 2,600 -1,334 -33.9 Huddersfield 3,308 2,175 -1,133 -34.3 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 3,698 2,411 -1,287 -34.8 South East Kent 3,946 2,564 -1,382 -35.0 East Birmingham 4,600 2,865 -1,735 -37.7 Scunthorpe 4,609 2,832 -1,777 -38.6 Warrington 3,037 1,864 -1,173 -38.6 Northampton 6,793 4,144 -2,649 -39.0 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 3,542 2,148 -1,394 -39.4 North Tyneside 1,721 1,043 -678 -39.4 Nottingham 10,988 6,625 -4,363 -39.7 Grimsby 2,355 1,400 -955 -40.6 Frenchay 5,855 3,458 -2,397 -40.9 Haringey 1,708 1,004 -704 -41.2 Norwich 10,980 6,377 -4,603 -41.9 Tameside and Glossop 2,866 1,645 -1,221 -42.6 North West Hertfordshire 2,697 1,544 -1,153 -42.8 Coventry 8,759 4,813 -3,946 -45.1 South Sefton 6,332 3,409 -2,923 -46.2 North Manchester 4,726 2,528 -2,198 -46.5 South Tees 10,319 5,519 -4,800 -46.5 North West Durham 1,325 683 -642 -48.5 Aylesbury Vale1 6,450 3,300 -3,150 -48.8 Southmead 2,958 1,415 -1,543 -52.2 North Birmingham 2,723 1,300 -1,423 -52.3 North Tees 1,958 930 -1,028 -52.5 Bassetlaw 1,185 535 -650 -54.9 Dewsbury 1,181 429 -752 -63.7 Macclesfield 2,302 760 -1,542 -67.0 The Royal Marsden Hospital3 331 n/a -331 — The Eastman Dental Hospital4 n/a 250 250 — Hampstead3 1,979 n/a — — 1 The waiting list for Milton Keynes was formerly held by Aylesbury Vale Health Authority but was taken over by Milton Keynes Health Authority in 1984 following the development of Milton Keynes General Hospital. The above table shows a comparable reduction in the Aylesbury Vale figures. 2 The waiting list figures for March 1987 are affected by the transfer of Black Notley Hospital from the North East Essex District to Mid Essex DHA on 1 April 1986. 3 No March 1987 figures available for Hampstead Health Authority and the Royal Marsden Hospital. 4 In September 1982 the data for the Eastman Dental Hospital was collected by another unit.
§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish figures showing the numbers of people waiting for treatment in March 1978468W and March 1987; and if he will break this list down by regional health authority, district health authority and special health authority.
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§ Mr. Newton[pursuant to his reply, 18 January 1988, c. 570]: The information requested is given in the table.
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Number of cases on in-patient waiting list at 31 March 1978 and 31 March 1987 District health authority March 1978 March 1987 Northern Region Hartlepool 1,523 1,661 North Tees 1,360 930 South Tees 4,543 5,519 East Cumbria1 .. 3,796 South Cumbria1 .. 1,217 West Cumbria 999 1,396 Darlington 2,088 2,397 Durham 1,286 1,032 North West Durham 1,080 683 South West Durham 907 831 Northumberland 1,477 1,668 Gateshead 1,787 1,412 Newcastle 8,903 9,363 North Tyneside 991 1,043 South Tyneside 646 727 Sunderland 2,917 3,659 RHA Total 30,507 37,334 Yorkshire Region Hull 5,076 6,911 East Yorkshire 1,361 1,429 Grimsby1 .. 1,400 Scunthorpe 2,062 2,832 Northallerton 562 699 York 2,290 2,575 Scarborough 1,238 1,724 Harrogate 2,213 2,059 Bradford 3,019 7,172 Airedale 1,049 2,100 Calderdale1 .. 996 Huddersfield 1,852 2,175 Dewsbury 829 429 Leeds Western1 .. 4,758 Leeds Eastern1 .. 6,064 Wakefield 1,873 2,241 Pontefract 1,840 2,079 RHA Total 25,264 47,643 Trent Region North Derbyshire 2,768 2,520 Southern Derbyshire 4,685 4,991 Leicestershire 8,252 8,278 North Lincolnshire 4,344 2,819 South Lincolnshire 4,628 4,190 Bassetlaw 1,467 535 Central Nottinghamshire 4,090 4,955 Nottingham 6,222 6,625 Barnsley 2,998 2,600 Doncaster1 .. 4,686 Rotherham1 .. 4,461 Sheffield1 .. 11,051 RHA Total 39,454 57,711 East Anglian Region Cambridge1 .. 4,945 Peterborough 2,760 4,176 West Suffolk1 .. 2,762 East Suffolk1 .. 3,381 Norwich 5,887 6,377 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 3,661 3,364 West Norfolk and Wisbech 3,221 2,088 Huntingdon1 .. 922 RHA Total 15,529 28,015 North West Thames Region
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District health authority March 1978 March 1987 North Bedfordshire 1,516 2,421 South Bedfordshire 2,805 2,415 North Hertfordshire 2,317 3,267 East Hertfordshire 1,426 1325 North West Hertfordshire 2,412 1,544 South West Hertfordshire 2,830 2,136 Barnet 3,085 3,545 Harrow 955 1,168 Hillingdon 7,263 7,867 Hounslow and Spelthorne1 .. 5,863 Ealing 1,298 1,504 Brent1 .. 1,903 Paddington and North Kensington 2,280 3,459 Riverside1 .. 5,590 RHA Total 28,187 44,007 North East Thames Region Basildon and Thurrock 5,708 6,541 Mid Essex2 2,837 4,672 North East Essex2 3,314 3,296 West Essex 2,506 4,645 Southend 2,267 3,788 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 4,436 6,488 Hampstead1 3 .. .. Bloomsbury1 .. 13,446 Islington1 .. 2,826 City and Hackney1 .. 7,140 Newham 1,312 1,638 Tower Hamlets1 .. 7,865 Enfield 2,539 3,074 Haringey 1,885 1,004 Redbridge 1,128 2,392 Waltham Forest 3,402 4,504 RHA Total 31,334 73,319 South East Thames Region Brighton 3,964 4,002 Eastbourne 1,624 3,298 Hastings 2,963 2,882 South East Kent 2,716 2,564 Canterbury and Thanet 3,660 4,889 Dartford and Gravesham 2,913 4,846 Maidstone 2,387 2,461 Medway 2,192 3,393 Tunbridge Wells 6,298 4,566 Bexley 707 1,953 Greenwich 1,992 2,687 Bromley 1,416 2,242 West Lambeth1 .. 8,111 Camberwell 3,061 2,913 Lewisham and North Southwark 5,781 9,341 RHA Total 41,674 60,168 South West Thames Region North West Surrey 3,099 2,915 North Surrey and North East Hants 3,015 4,763 South West Surrey 2,698 3,005 Mid Surrey 940 2,157 East Surrey 1,059 2,327 Chichester 1,518 2,464 Mid Downs 1,780 2,288 Worthing 2,439 3,058 Croydon 2,535 2,518 Kingston and Esher1 .. 2,418 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton1 .. 2,521 Wandsworth 3,260 2,768 Merton and Sutton 3,069 2,946 RHA Total 25,412 36,148 Wessex Region East Dorset 4,549 5,424 West Dorset 2,282 2,057
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District health authority March 1978 March 1987 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 6,364 7,644 Southampton and South West Hampshire 5,267 8,217 Winchester 2,725 2,880 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 2,368 2,411 Salisbury 3,407 4,717 Swindon 1,404 3,194 Bath 4,701 5,570 Isle of Wight 1,184 1,368 RHA Total 34,251 43,482 Oxford Region East Berkshire 7,962 7,905 West Berkshire 3,012 3,999 Aylesbury Vale1 .. 3,300 Wycombe 1,195 1,333 Milton Keynes1 .. 2,614 Kettering 4,027 3,546 Northampton 4,895 4,144 Oxfordshire 6,800 5,901 RHA Total 27,891 32,742 South Western Region Bristol and Weston 8,090 8,213 Frenchay 5,977 3,458 Southmead 1,200 1,415 Cornwall and Isles of Stilly 3,510 4,434 Exeter 3,484 4,737 North Devon1 .. 1,693 Plymouth1 .. 5,800 Torbay 3,369 1,602 Cheltenham1 .. 2,157 Gloucester .. 4,214 Somerset 5,233 5,436 RHA Total 30,863 43,159 West Midlands Region Bromsgrove and Redditch 1,201 2,052 Herefordshire 2,135 2,945 Kidderminster and District 813 1,585 Worcester and District 1,884 3,477 Shropshire 6,134 8,842 Mid Staffordshire 2,347 1,648 North Staffordshire 8,325 9,058 South East Staffordshire 1,383 2,679 Rugby 764 659 North Warwickshire1 .. 2,576 South Warwickshire1 .. 2,631 Central Birmingham1 .. 5,427 East Birmingham 3,727 2,865 North Birmingham 3,969 1,300 South Birmingham1 .. 7,569 West Birmingham1 .. 4,699 Coventry 5,254 4,813 Dudley 5,562 3,889 Sandwell 1,899 1,927 Solihull .. 1,578 Walsall 3,841 2,740 Wolverhampton 3,618 4,802 RHA Total 52,856 79,761 Mersey Region Chester 2,137 2,759 Crewe1 .. 3,512 Halton 0 141 Macclesfield1 .. 760 Warrington 2,623 1,864 Liverpool 7,704 7,704 St. Helens and Knowsley1 .. 4,074 Southport and Formby 1,703 1,360 South Sefton 3,916 3,409 Wirral 3,168 3,564
District health authority March 1978 March 1987 RHA Total 21,251 29,147 North Western Region Lancaster 1,867 2,312 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 3,771 4,546 Preston1 .. 4,586 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 4,978 2,404 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 3,864 2,148 West Lancashire 2,466 2,495 Chorley and South Ribble1 .. 770 Bolton 3,599 3,138 Bury 1,075 731 North Manchester 4,549 2,528 Central Manchester 5,769 6,543 South Manchester 5,281 6,408 Oldham 3,024 4,925 Rochdale 2,629 2,933 Salford 3,669 5,101 Stockport 4,191 4,668 Tameside and Glossop 2,051 1,645 Trafford 1,821 1,542 Wigan 2,824 4,458 RHA Total 57,428 63,881 Special Health Authorities The Hospital for Sick Children 2,128 2,110 The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases 257 564 Moorfields Eye Hospital 915 1,387 The Bethiem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals 77 105 The National Heart and Chest Hospitals 921 1,065 The Royal Marsden Hospital3 158 .. Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 319 3,247 The Eastman Dental Hospital4 .. 250 Special Health Authorities Total 4,775 8,728 1 Comparable figures not readily available because of National Health Service restructuring on 1 April 1982. 2 The waiting list figures for March 1987 are affected by the transfer of Black Notley Hospital from the North East Essex District to Mid Essex district health authority on 1 April 1986. 3 No March 1987 figures available for Hampstead Health Authority and The Royal Marsden Hospital. 4 In September 1982 the data for the Eastman Dental Hospital was collected by another unit.