§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the survey of laboratory backlogs and workload carried out in the second half of 1990 referred to in his answer of 21 February,Official Report, column 240.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe survey dealt only with those district health authorities in which the processing time for cervical smear tests was over one month on 1 July 1990. These are listed in the table with the length of the backlog and the number of smears received in the period March to May 1990. Since the length of backlogs changes over time, the current position is likely to vary from that shown. Two out of three health authorities processed smear tests within the requested one month.
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Survey of laboratory backlogs and workloads: July 1990 DHA Backlog (weeks) Smears Received March-May 1990 Northern North West Durham 7.5 3,171 Newcastle 5.5 24,053 North Tyneside Northumberland Yorkshire Hull 7 13,116 East Yorkshire Grimsby 6 5,684 Bradford 6 12,956 Airedale Wakefield 6 5,589 Trent South Derbyshire 6 16,061 Nottingham 12 22,205 Doncaster 12 7,942 Rotherham 8 n/a Sheffield 6 14,420 East Anglia Cambridge 12 8,254
DHA Backlog (weeks) Smears Received March-May 1990 West Norfolk 6 n/a North West Thames North Bedfordshire 8 6,396 Barnet 5 n/a North East Thames North East Essex 12 8,155 Southend 11 11,144 Haringey 5 4,623 Basildon and Thurrock 13 8,091 Redbridge 14 5,260 West Essex 10 6,933 Mid Essex 6.5 8,769 Enfield 5.5 n/a South East Thames Canterbury/Thanet 5 7,510 Dartford/Gravesend 5 6,144 Medway 5 8,244 Tunbridge Wells 7 6,167 Greenwich 12 3,975 Bromley 7 9,300 Lewisham and North Southwark (Guy's) 13 3,630 South West Thames Worthing 9 n/a Merton/Sutton 5 n/a South West Surrey 7 n/a Wessex West Dorset 5 n/a Portsmouth 8.5 n/a Southampton 5 n/a Swindon 7 n/a Bath 8 n/a Oxford Oxfordshire 5.5 n/a East Berkshire 10 10,915 Aylesbury Vale 5 12,969 South Western Bristol and Weston 5 14,911 Frenchay Southmead Cornwall 7 11,651 Exeter 7 11,959 Torbay 7 6,708 West Midlands Herefordshire 6 4,443 Worcestershire 8 5,557 Shropshire 7 12,295 South Warwickshire 6 7,349 Central Birmingham (part) 5 8,072 West Birmingham 5 8,010 Coventry 5 10,569 Mersey Liverpool (part) 5 4,016 St. Helens and Knowlsey 6.5 5,820 Chester 6 6,161 North Western West Lancashire 8 1,491 Bolton 7 7,698 Rochdale 10 4,174 Stockport 8 3,212