§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the average number of days geriatric patients spent in hospital after an operation for each year since 1981.
§ Mr. YeoThe information requested has been collected centrally only since 1987–88. The first reliable figures were for 1988–89 and are given in the table.
Average post-operative stay Year Number of days 1988–89 9.7 1989–90 9.4 1990–91 8.9 The information relates to patients over 65.