HC Deb 26 February 2001 vol 363 cc438-40W
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) in which health authorities more than one patient in eight who are waiting for in-patient treatment has waited over one year; [150319]

(2) which health authorities have more patients waiting over one year for in-patient treatment now than on 1 May 1997. [150379]

Mr. Denham

No more than one patient in eight is waiting over one year for in-patient treatment in any health authority in England.

The health authorities which have more patients waiting over one year for in-patient treatment now than on 1 May 1997 are shown in the table.

Patients waiting for elective admission, March 1997 and December 2000
Region Health authority
Northern and Yorkshire Bradford
Calderdale and Kirklees
Durham
East Riding
Gateshead and South Tyneside Leeds
Newcastle and North Tyneside North Cumbria
North Yorkshire Northumberland
Sunderland
Tees
Wakefield
Patients waiting for elective admission, March 1997 December 2000
Region Health authority
Trent Leicestershire
North Nottinghamshire
West Midlands Birmingham
Coventry
Dudley
Herefordshire
North Staffordshire
Sandwell
Shropshire
Solihull
South Staffordshire
Walsall
Warwickshire
Wolverhampton
Worcestershire
North West Bury and Rochdale
East Lancashire
Manchester
Morecambe Bay
North Cheshire
North West Lancashire
Salford and Trafford
Sefton
South Cheshire
South Lancashire
St. Helens and Knowsley
Stockport
West Pennine
Wigan and Bolton
Wirral
Eastern Bedfordshire
Cambridgeshire
East and North Hertfordshire
Norfolk
North Essex
South Essex
Suffolk
West Hertfordshire
London Barking and Havering
Bexley and Greenwich
Bromley
Camden and Islington
Croydon
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster
Kingston and Richmond
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth
South East Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
East Kent
East Surrey
East Sussex Brighton and Hove
North and Mid Hampshire
Northamptonshire
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire
Southampton and South West Hampshire
West Kent
West Surrey
West Sussex
Patients waiting for elective admission, March 1997 and December 2000
Region Health authority
South West Avon
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Dorset
Gloucestershire
North and East Devon
Somerset
South and West Devon
Wiltshire
1 Ordinary and day case admissions combined.

Note:

Data have been given from March 1997 as these are the nearest available data to May 1997. Data were not collected on a monthly basis at March 1997.

Source:

Department of Health form QF01

Mr. Amess

To ask the Secretary of what statistics his Department collects on the number of patients who die while on waiting lists for general surgery. [151253]

Mr. Denham

The Department does not collect Bay statistics on how many patients die while waiting for Data are collected on how many patients are from the waiting list without being treated but these are not broken down into the reasons why.