§ Ms JowellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were removed from hospital waiting lists in each regional health authority in each year since 1991.
§ Mr. MaloneThe available information is shown in the table. Removals are patients removed from a waiting list for in-patient or day-case treatment for any reason other than admission for treatment from that list. They include patients who have been admitted for treatment as emergencies for the same condition or at hospitals other than those on whose waiting lists they were originally placed.
Removals from in-patient and day case waiting lists Region 1991 1992 1993 Northern 9,299 11,890 18,049 Yorkshire 23,383 24,667 34,353 Trent 19,415 24,050 29,446 East Anglia 15,277 17,033 16,084 North West Thames 30,920 40,941 34,504 North East Thames 44,574 43,247 36,007 South East Thames 43,242 52,482 54,052 South West Thames 19,858 24,716 21,473 Wessex 21,188 18,033 20,568 Oxford 13,735 20,291 18,861 South Western 25,359 26,470 24,767 West Midlands 35,039 44,942 50,520 Mersey 22,641 22,870 31,523 North Western 24,275 34,279 42,255