§ David DavisTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were on in-patient waiting lists for(a) Hull Royal Infirmary and (b) Castle Hill Hospital in the last month for which figures are available. [132524]
§ Miss Melanie Johnson[holding answer 16 October 2003]: Information relating to individual hospital sites is not held centrally. However, as at 31 August 2003, 10,349 patients were waiting for elective inpatient admission at the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals National Health Service Trust, none of whom had been waiting for more than 12 months.
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§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list hospital trusts in London which have experienced an increase in(a) in-patient, (b) out-patient and (c) total waiting lists in the past two years. [133746]
§ Mr. HuttonInformation is not collected centrally on the total out-patient waiting list in London. National health service trusts which have shown an increase in their elective in-patient admission waiting lists are shown in the table.
carried out as quickly as possible, dependent on the clinical priority of all patients waiting to be scanned.
Where a CT scan forms part of the diagnostic process for a patient urgently referred with suspected cancer, this will be covered by the target of a maximum two months wait from urgent referral to first treatment, which will be in place for all cancers by the end of 2005.
The Cancer Capital Modernisation Fund and the NHS Cancer Plan has provided funding for 200 new and replacement CT scanners to increase the capacity of diagnostic services by 2004.