§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what were the median and mean waiting times for urgent in-patient treatment over the last three years.
§ Mr. MaloneThis information is not available centrally.
§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will implement a system which will routinely gather and analyse out-patient waiting time data in the National Health Service.
§ Mr. MaloneWe have recently implemented a system to collect information on the waiting times for first out-patient appointments. This system records how long patients seen during a quarter had to wait. The first provisional results, for the quarter ending September 1994, were published on 18 January.