§ Mr. LeightonTo 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 BottomleyThe 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.