§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will give details of each successful hid from the national initiative to cut waiting lists during 1988–89: and if he will list separately each successful hid involving the treatment of patients under contract at a private hospital or clinic;
(2) if any strategic decision was taken to ensure that a percentage of the sum set aside for the national initiative to reduce waiting lists was spent at private hospitals or clinics; and what criteria were used to judge bids from district health authorities or special health authorities for money from the national initiative;
Waiting List Fund Projects 1988–89 involving the Independent Sector Region District Specially Target caseload in-patients and day cases Yorkshire Huddersfield Mixed 150 Yorkshire Hull Oral Surgery 300 Trent Doncaster General Surgery 202 Trent Doncaster ENT 229 Trent Doncaster Gynaecology 75 Trent South Lincolnshire T & O 300 East Anglian West Norfolk General Surgery 50 North West Thames Region-wide Mixed 1,350 North West Thames Hillingdon T & O 100 North West Thames Hounslow and Spelthorne Mixed 550 North East Thames Southend T & O 60 North East Thames Bloomsbury Plastic Surgery 100 South East Thames Brighton General Surgery 128 South East Thames Brighton T & O 60 South East Thames Dartford and Gravesham General Surgery/Urology 300 South East Thames Hastings T & O 50 South West Thames North West Surrey T & O 50 South West Thames South West Surrey T & O 190 South West Thames Worthing Ophthalmology 100 Wessex East Dorset Urology 110 Oxford Aylesbury Vale Plastic Surgery 270 South Western Cornwall T & O 50 South Western Cornwall Ophthalmology 60 South Western Cornwall General Surgery 240 South Western Torbay Ophthalmology 320 North Western Bolton Ophthalmology 100