§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people had been on hospital waiting lists in England in total, and in each specialty on 1 July 1992 and on 1 July 1993 for(a) three months or less, (b) six months or less, (c) 12 months or less, (d) 24 months or less or (e) over 24 months.
§ Dr. MawhinneyInformation on waiting times by specialty for in-patient and day-case treatment is given in "Hospital Waiting List Statistics: England". This is published twice yearly for March and September and copies are available in the Library. Information is given in time bands of zero to five months, six to 11 months, 12 to 23 months and 24 months and over.
Provisional waiting time figures in annual time bands are published quarterly. These show that in England at 30 June 1992 there were 843,210 patients waiting less than a one year, 925,695 waiting less than two years and 1,244 waiting over two years. At 30 June 1993 there were 952,023 waiting under one year, 1,017,488 waiting under two years and only 275 waiting over two years, all of whom were waiting for specialised infertilty treatment at a London hospital.