§ Mr. Peter AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were waiting for treatment at East Surrey Hospital, together with the average length of waiting time in(a) May 1997 and (b) May 2001. [146]
§ Mr. Hutton[holding answer 25 June 2001]: East Surrey Healthcare and Crawley Horsham National Health Service Trusts merged in 1998–99 to form the Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust. As waiting times data are collected on 73W an aggregated trust basis only and not on a hospital basis, data are not available for East Surrey Hospital. The information for these trusts are given in the table.
Trust Total inpatient waiting list Average (median) waiting times (months) June 19971 East Surrey Healthcare 4,801 3.49 Crawley Horsham 4,262 5.21 Combined data 9,063 4.32 April 2001 Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust 8,377 5.07 1 Monthly returns have only been collected since March 1998 Note:
East Surrey Healthcare and Crawley Horsham merged to form one trust (Surrey and Sussex Healthcare) in 1998–99.
Data for the two trusts East Surrey Healthcare and Crawley Horsham for June 1997 have been combined in order to provide comparable data.
Source:
KH07 quarterly return/monthly waiting times returns
§ Mr. Peter AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the state of negotiations between Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust and a private nursing home provider concerning the future of Oxted Hospital. [144]
§ Ms Blears[holding answer 25 June 2001]: Negotiations are still ongoing between Surrey and Sussex Healthcare National Health Service Trust and a preferred private sector provider. An announcement will be made by the trust following the outcome of these negotiations.