§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the number of in-patients treated immediately by referral and not recorded as waiting for treatment, and give this as a percentage figure of all patients treated.
§ Mr. FreemanThe information readily available indicates that in 1987–88 some 3 million (54 per cent.) of all acute admissions were not recorded as already waiting for in-patient treatment.