§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyTo 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. DenhamNo 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.
439W
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 440W
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. AmessTo 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. DenhamThe 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.