HC Deb 15 November 1990 vol 180 c207W
Mr. Michael J. Martin

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many patients who were on the waiting list for heart surgery within the Greater Glasgow health board area have died of heart attacks prior to their operations in the last 12 months.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

In the period 1 November 1989 to 31 October 1990, 43 deaths were recorded. Information on the actual cause of death is not recorded centrally.

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