HC Deb 17 March 1999 vol 327 cc672-3W
Mr. Syms

To ask the Secretary of State for Health for each of the last 10 years, how many patients have waited(a) three to 25 weeks and (b) more than 26 weeks to see a consultant in each (i) health authority and (ii) English region. [74732]

Mr. Denham

The information requested is not available.

Information on outpatient waiting times by health authority is only available from 1998–99. Available information for the quarter ending December 1998 is provided in the table.

Number of patients seen for first outpatient appointment, by time band, following written referral by a GP, quarter ended 31 December 1998
Number seen who had waited:
Health Authority 0 to less than 4 weeks 4 to less than 26 weeks 26 weeks and over
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 4,966 6,506 171
North Essex 10,577 19,812 1,298
Redbridge and Waltham Forest 5,670 9,529 1,566
South Essex 8,059 17,962 808
West Hertfordshire 5,631 10,046 452
North Thames Region total 86,616 154,381 11,102
Bexley and Greenwich 6,697 9,547 1,040
Bromley 2,761 6,963 577
Croydon 4,904 5,822 215
East Kent 6,975 12,589 712
East Surrey 5,625 6,422 107
East Sussex Brighton and Hove 8,523 19,374 1,015
Kingston and Richmond 4,719 5,264 135
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 7,833 16,693 1,360
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 9,362 14,286 813
West Kent 11,817 19,323 1,725
West Surrey 9,456 13,772 559
West Sussex 5,960 12,807 1,248
South Thames Region total 84,632 142,862 9,506
Avon 13,889 18,176 3,115
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 8,040 11,091 1,578
Dorset 12,574 17,753 315
Gloucestershire 7,682 12,048 765
Isle of Wight 2,290 3,043 8
North and East Devon 6,809 10,459 906
North and Mid Hampshire 8,591 12,939 781
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 5,102 12,515 3,239
Somerset 7,279 10,734 747
South and West Devon 8,879 12,609 1,395
Southampton and South West Hampshire 5,701 11,435 747
Wiltshire 9,372 14,094 1,257
South and West Region total 96,208 146,896 14,853
Birmingham 15,532 22,710 557
Coventry 2,976 7,446 518
Dudley 4,116 6,953 119
Herefordshire 6,124 4,152 489
North Staffordshire 3,853 8,255 2,258
Sandwell 4,582 6,813 560
Shropshire 5,239 10,345 847
Solihull 2,295 3,993 56
South Staffordshire 7,566 13,020 2,131
Walsall 3,639 5,632 594
Warwickshire 3,438 6,228 478
Wolverhampton 952 1,852 120
Worcestershire 8,415 10,932 134
West Midlands Region total 68,727 108,331 8,861
Bury and Rochdale 5,771 8,749 571
East Lancashire 6,848 13,448 799
Liverpool 5,627 11,127 1,299
Manchester 6,503 10,065 1,303
Morecambe Bay 5,515 7,051 912
North Cheshire 8,214 5,610 181
North West Lancashire 7,221 11,344 562
Salford and Trafford 7,507 11,155 1,200
Sefton 2,499 6,793 593
South Cheshire 9,295 14,462 698
South Lancashire 4,001 7,897 817
St. Helens and Knowsley 5,290 8,086 866
Stockport 5,578 6,818 493
West Pennine 6,164 10,401 1,063
Wigan and Bolton 8,266 14,360 924
Wirral 3,687 6,766 1,017
North West Region total 97,986 154,132 13,298
England total 673,460 1,077,549 89,696

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