§ Dr. Evan HarrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Health at how many places elective surgery was available(a) in each health authority in England and (b) in total for England, in the last two years for which figures are available. [13613]
§ Mr. HuttonI apologise to my hon. Friend for the delay in responding to this question. I refer him to the reply that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble) on 5 March 2002,Official Report, column 192W.
996WIn 1999–2000, 251 NHS trusts in England carried out elective operations. 245 NHS trusts carried out elective operations in 2000–01. The table shows the number of trusts in each health authority that carried out elective surgery in both of those years. Fourteen NHS trust mergers took place between these two years.
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Number of NHS trusts Health authority 1999–00 2000–01 Hillingdon 1 1 Kensington Chelsea and Westminster 3 4 Enfield and Haringey 1 1 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 2 2 Bedfordshire 2 2 Berkshire 4 4 Buckinghamshire 4 4 Bexley and Greenwich 2 2 Bromley 1 1 Croydon 1 1 East Kent 1 1 West Kent 5 5 Kingston and Richmond 1 1 Lambeth Southwark and Lewisham 3 3 Merton Sutton and Wandsworth 3 3 West Surrey 5 5 East Sussex Brighton and Hove 4 4 West Sussex 6 6 Barking and Havering 1 1 Barnet 2 2 Brent and Harrow 2 2 Camden and Islington 5 5 Ealing Hammersmith and Hounslow 3 3 East London and The City 5 5 North Essex 4 3 South Essex 2 2 South Lancashire 1 2 Liverpool 4 5 Manchester 4 4 Morecambe Bay 1 1 St. Helens and Knowsley 1 1 Salford and Trafford 3 3 Sefton 3 3 Stockport 2 1 West Pennine 3 3 Northamptonshire 3 3 Oxfordshire 2 2 Suffolk 3 3 Barnsley 2 2 North Derbyshire 2 2 South Derbyshire 2 2 Doncaster 1 2 Leicestershire 4 2 Lincolnshire 3 1 North Nottinghamshire 3 3 Nottingham 2 2 Rotherham 1 1 Sheffield 3 3 Bury and Rochdale 2 2 North Cheshire 2 2 South Cheshire 3 3 East Lancashire 2 2 North West Lancashire 3 3 North and Mid Hampshire 4 3 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 2 2 Southampton and South West Hampshire 2 2 Isle of Wight 2 2 Somerset 3 3 South and West Devon 3 3 Wiltshire 3 3 Avon 7 7 Birmingham 8 8 Wigan and Bolton 2 3 Wirral 2 2 Bradford 2 2 County Durham 2 2 East Riding 1 1 Gateshead and South Tyneside 2 2
Number of NHS trusts Health authority 1999–00 2000–01 Leeds 2 2 Newcastle and North Tyneside 1 1 North Cumbria 2 2 South Humber 2 2 Northumberland 1 1 Sunderland 1 1 Tees 3 2 Wakefield 1 1 North Yorkshire 4 4 Calderdale and Kirklees 3 3 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 2 2 Dorset 5 6 North and East Devon 3 3 Gloucestershire 3 3 Coventry 1 1 Dudley 2 2 Herefordshire 2 2 Sandwell 1 1 Shropshire 4 4 North Staffordshire 1 1 South Staffordshire 3 3 Walsall 1 1 Warwickshire 2 2 Wolverhampton 1 1 Worcestershire 4 2 East and North Hertfordshire 2 1 West Hertfordshire 2 1 Cambridge 5 5 Norfolk 4 4 Total 251 245 Note: The figures have been adjusted to take account of miscodings.