§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the change in the proportion of in patient waiting list cases waiting for more than one year for treatment in the Warrington district health authority between March 1986 and the latest available date.
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§ Mr. MellorThe percentage of cases on Warrington district health authority's inpatient waiting list waiting a year or more dropped from 42 per cent. to 20 per cent., between 31 March 1986 and 30 September 1988.
§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to reduce hospital waiting lists in Durham district health authority area.
§ Mr. MellorAs part of our drive to reduce long waiting lists and times, £166,431 has been allocated from the waiting list fund to Durham district health authority. By March 1990 this will have enabled an additional 371 in-patients and day cases and an extra 1,135 outpatients to be treated.
§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give details of the progress of the waiting list initiative in Warrington health authority and in Halton health authority.
§ Mr. MellorAs part of our drive to reduce long waiting lists and times, £468,000 has been allocated from the waiting list fund to Warrington district health authority and £491,000 to Halton district health authority. By March 1990 this will have enabled an additional 3,157 inpatients and day cases and an extra 375 outpatients to be treated in Warrington and 4,682 additional inpatients and day cases in Halton. At September 1988 no one waited longer than one year in Halton. In Warrington the number waiting over a year stood at one third of the 1979 figure.