§ Virginia BottomleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what percentage of patients waiting for inpatient treatment have been waiting over one year; [71911]
(2) which 10 health authorities have the highest percentage of patients waiting for more than one year for inpatient treament; and which health authorities have no patients waiting more than nine months for inpatient treatment; [71998]
(3) if he will list, in rank order of health authority, the proportion of patients waiting a year or more for in-patient treatment (a) at the latest available date and (b) 12 months ago. [72413]
§ Mr. HuttonTwo per cent. of patients were waiting over one year for elective admission at 31 March 2002. This is the latest available data on a health authority basis.
The table shows the equivalent figures at health authority level ranked in descending order for both March 2001 and March 2002. The table includes the ten health authorities that have the highest percentage of patients waiting more than one year for elective admission.
All health authorities have patients waiting more than nine months as at March 2002.
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Percentage of patients waiting over 1 year for elective admission: Health Authorities England Percentage of patients waiting over 1 year Health Authority March 2001 March 2002 South and West Devon HA 6 5 Avon HA 7 5 East Kent HA 6 5 North Cheshire HA 9 5 East Surrey HA 10 5 Northamptonshire HA 5 4 Bromley HA 5 4 Redbridge and Waltham Forest HA 8 4 West Sussex HA 10 4 Wiltshire HA 6 4 West Surrey HA 10 4 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly HA 6 4 Stockport HA 3 4 Barking and Havering HA 5 4 East Sussex Brighton and Hove HA 6 4 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham HA 9 4 1415W
Percentage of patients waiting over 1 year for elective admission: Health Authorities England Percentage of patients waiting over 1 year Health Authority March 2001 March 2002 Croydon HA 10 4 Barnet HA 4 4 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth HA 6 3 Buckinghamshire HA 5 3 North and Mid Hampshire HA 5 3 Worcestershire HA 4 3 Bedfordshire HA 7 3 Norfolk HA 5 3 Hertfordshire HA . 3 Salford and Trafford HA 6 3 Suffolk HA 4 3 Isle of Wight HA 6 3 Southampton and SW Hampshire HA 8 3 West Kent HA 7 3 Kingston and Richmond HA 5 3 Manchester HA 7 3 Somerset HA 2 3 East Riding and Hull HA 1 3 North Essex HA 6 2 East London and City HA 4 2 Berkshire HA 3 2 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow HA 5 2 South Cheshire HA 4 2 Cambridgeshire HA 4 2 Hillingdon HA 5 2 East Lancashire HA 1 2 Liverpool HA 4 2 Brent and Harrow HA 5 2 St Helens and Knowsley HA 4 2 Wigan and Bolton HA 3 2 Camden and Islington HA 4 2 North West Lancashire HA 1 1 Sefton HA 5 1 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster HA 2 1 Morecambe Bay HA 2 1 Coventry HA 1 1 Gloucestershire HA 1 1 Bury and Rochdale HA 2 1 South Essex HA 3 1 South Lancashire HA 4 1 Wirral HA 3 1 Oxfordshire HA 4 1 West Pennine HA 2 1 North and East Devon HA 6 1 Lincolnshire HA 4 1 Solihull HA 0 0 Sheffield HA 1 0 Warwickshire HA 1 0 Nottingham HA 1 0 North Nottinghamshire HA 1 0 North Derbyshire HA 0 0 South Humber HA 0 0 Calderdale and Kirklees HA 0 0 Shropshire HA 4 0 Leeds HA 1 0 Rotherham HA 0 0 Herefordshire HA 4 0 North Yorkshire HA 0 0 Southern Derbyshire HA 1 0 Barnsley HA 0 0 Dorset HA 0 0 South Staffordshire HA 5 0 Bradford HA 0 0 Leicestershire HA 2 0 North Staffordshire HA 5 0 Doncaster HA 0 0 Wakefield HA 2 0 Birmingham HA 1 0 North Cumbria HA 2 0
Percentage of patients waiting over 1 year for elective admission: Health Authorities England Percentage of patients waiting over 1 year Health Authority March 2001 March 2002 Tees HA 0 0 County Durham and Darlington HA 0 0 Dudley HA 2 0 Gateshead and South Tyneside HA 0 0 Newcastle and North Tyneside HA 1 0 Northumberland HA 1 0 Sandwell HA 1 0 Sunderland HA 0 0 Walsall HA 1 0 Wolverhampton HA 1 0 Bexley and Greenwich HA 6 . EandN Hertfordshire HA 6 . Enfield and Haringey HA 7 . Portsmouth and SE Hampshire HA 6 . West Hertfordshire HA 7 . Source:
Patient Environment Action Teams
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