asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many patients were awaiting operations in each of the main surgical specialties at each of the hospitals in the Greenwich and Bexley area at the most recent convenient date.
Following are the figures of patients who, at 31 December 1977, were awaiting admission to the surgical specialties in the NHS hospitals in the Greenwich and Bexley area.
Specialty
| Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup
| Erith and District Hospital
| St. Nicholas's Hospital Plumstead
| Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital
| Eltham and Mottingham Hospital
| Greenwich District Hospital
| Brook General Hospital
| Bexley and Welling Hospital
| Memorial Hospital London S.E.18
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| General surgery | … | 147 | 73 | 363 | 25 | 31 | 234 | 109 | Nil | — | |
| Ear, nose and throat | … | — | — | — | 12 | — | — | 93 | — | — | |
| Traumatic and orthopaedic | … | … | 89 | 24 | 15 | 31 | 3 | 59 | 110 | — | — |
| Ophthalmology | … | 216 | — | — | — | — | 68 | — | — | — | |
| Urology | … | … | — | — | — | — | — | 27 | 46 | Nil | — |
| Thoracic surgery | … | — | — | — | — | — | — | 14 | — | — | |
| Dental surgery | … | 19 | — | — | 1 | — | 19 | — | — | — | |
| Neurosurgery | … | — | — | — | — | — | — | 20 | — | — | |
| Gynaecology | … | 27 | 1 | 110 | — | — | 99 | — | — | Nil | |
| Total | … | 498 | 98 | 488 | 69 | 34 | 506 | 392 | Nil | Nil | |
| Bexley hospital, Bexley maternity hospital, British hospital for mothers and babies and Goldie Leigh hospital, London S.E.2 have no surgical specialties. | |||||||||||