HC Deb 30 March 1988 vol 130 cc545-7W
Mr. Tony Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide details of the Brighton health authority waiting list for each category of care for each year from 1979, and for each quarter in 1987.

Number of patients on the in-patient waiting list for Brighton District Health Authority from 31 March 1979 to 31 March 1987
Specialty 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987
Thoracic medicine 3
Dermatology 12 10 19 7
Geriatrics 43 13 45 38 9 10 18 13
General surgery 1,696 1,398 1,197 1,020 1,108 1,046 1,463 1,024 1,138
Ear, nose and throat 556 554 436 395 670 471 477 405 568
Traumatic and orthopaedic 873 896 826 907 979 874 625 678 984
Ophthalmology 51 113 169 131 204 299 320 207 148
Urology 722 568 568 494 456 725 601 553 225
Plastic surgery 5 3 18 30
Oral surgery 112 223 129 107 123 144 164 204 237
Orthodontics 10 4 1

Mr. Newton

[holding answer 4 March 1988]: The information available centrally is given in the table.

Specially 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987
Neurosurgery 1 2
Gynaecology 391 367 284 345 242 281 303 413 398
Mental illness 15 39 17 16
G.P. dental 51
Paediatric surgery1 52 63 360 244
Other 23 24 30 33 29 36
Total 4,515 4,250 3,770 3,493 3,801 3,859 4,006 3,915 4,022
1 between 1982 and 1985, Paediatric Surgery was included in General Surgery.