HC Deb 14 January 1991 vol 183 cc407-8W
Mr. Leighton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give a list of regional health authorities showing how many patients in each had been waiting(a) for one year and (b) for two years for operations.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The information requested is given in the table. For England as a whole the number of in-patients waiting over a year for operations has fallen by 17,086 (9 per cent.) and for those waiting over two years by 10,737 (14 per cent.) in the 12 months to March 1990. Since March 1979 the number of patients treated has increased by 24.9 per cent.

Waiting list for in-patient surgical acute treatment at 31 March 1990—England
RHA Total1 Over 1 year Over 2 year
Northern 31,912 6,931 2,536
Yorkshire 41,898 7,827 2,667
Trent 50,216 10,440 3,386
East Anglian 29,967 7,587 2,960
North West Thames 40,701 11,876 5,339
North East Thames 60,146 21,146 10,404
South East Thames 53,551 17,196 8,320
South West Thames 34,827 11,610 4,244
Wessex 37,645 9,450 3,591
Oxford 29,325 8,457 3,107
South Western 43,666 11,838 4,398
West Midlands 61,883 16,264 6,507
Mersey 22,605 2,329 16
North Western 57,321 19,718 5,485
Special HAs 7,389 1,891 590
England (total) 603,052 164,560 63,550
Source: KHO6, KHO7, KHO7A.
1 Figures relate to those waiting less self-deferred cases.

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