§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether she will require NHS hospitals and trusts to publish maximum waiting times from receipt of a general practitioners referral to admission as well as from first out-patient appointment to admission;
(2) what proportion of NHS hospitals and trusts had, at July 1993, published their current maximum admission times for each specialty; and which hospital or trust had the longest and shortest waiting time at 1 April 1993 in each specialty.
§ Dr. MawhinneyInformation on waiting times for in-patient and day-case treatment by specialty and by district health authority and trust is given in "Hospital Waiting List Statistics: England", which is published twice yearly. The latest published figures are for March and September 1993 and copies are available in the Library.
Information on waiting times to first out-patient appointment is not yet collected.
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