§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of patients in each health authority in England have been waiting for treatment for more than 12 months. [7625]
§ Mr. HuttonThe table shows, for each health authority in England, the percentage of patients who were waiting 12 months or more for admission to hospital on 31 August 2001.
As part of the NHS plan, the national health service is working towards reducing the current maximum in-patient wait of 18 months to 14 months by March 2002, 12 months by March 2003, nine months by March 2004 and then ultimately six months by the end of 2005.
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Health authority Percentage waiting more than 12 months Hillingdon 5.8 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 1.8 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 8.3 Bedfordshire 7.0 Berkshire 3.7 Buckinghamshire 5.6 Croydon 9.6 East Kent 6.9 West Kent 5.3 Kingston and Richmond 6.1 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 8.5 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 5.4 East Surrey 8.7 West Surrey 10.9 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 6.4 West Sussex 9.3 Barking and Havering 6.1 Brent and Harrow 6.0 1045W
Health authority Percentage waiting more than 12 months Camden and Islington 4.4 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 5.2 East London and City 4.7 North Essex 6.1 South Essex 3.9 South Lancashire 2.4 Liverpool 4.0 Manchester 6.3 Morecambe Bay 2.6 St. Helens and Knowsley 3.4 Salford and Trafford 6.4 Sefton 3.3 Stockport 3.8 West Pennine 2.4 Northamptonshire 4.8 Oxfordshire 4.6 Suffolk 4.6 Barnsley 0.4 North Derbyshire 0.7 South Derbyshire 2.6 Doncaster 0.3 Leicestershire 2.6 Lincolnshire 4.3 North Nottinghamshire 1.0 Nottingham 2.3 Rotherham 0.4 Sheffield 1.2 Bury and Rochdale 3.2 North Cheshire 7.9 South Cheshire 4.7 East Lancashire 1.6 North West Lancashire 1.5 North and Mid Hampshire 4.9 Southampton and South West Hampshire 6.4 Somerset 3.4 South and West Devon 6.6 Wiltshire 5.9
Health authority Percentage waiting more than 12 months Avon 6.5 Birmingham 2.0 Wigan and Bolton 3.7 Wirral 2.8 Bradford 0.8 County Durham and Darlington 0.9 East Riding and Hull 3.5 Gateshead and South Tyneside 0.5 Leeds 3.0 Newcastle and North Tyneside 1.1 North Cumbria 1.8 South Humber 0.8 Northumberland 0.9 Sunderland 0.5 Tees 0.4 Wakefield 2.3 North Yorkshire 1.2 Calderdale and Kirklees 0.8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 5.1 Dorset 0.1 North and East Devon 5.5 Gloucestershire 1.6 Coventry 2.7 Dudley 2.2 Herefordshire 3.7 Sandwell 0.8 Shropshire 3.5 Solihull 1.2 North Staffordshire 2.9 South Staffordshire 5.2 Walsall 0.8 Warwickshire 1.1 Wolverhampton 1.4 Worcestershire 5.0 Cambridgeshire 4.2 Norfolk 5.3 Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 6.3 Barnet, Enfield and Haringey 6.9 Hertfordshire 6.1 Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich 5.8 England total 4.4