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Kidney Patients

Volume 79: debated on Thursday 16 May 1985

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asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report the numbers on the waiting list for renal dialysis in (a) the Greater Glasgow health board area, (b) the west of Scotland and (c) Scotland.

All patients referred for treatment for end-stage renal failure who are considered likely to benefit from renal dialysis are receiving appropriate treatment and there are no waiting lists.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the total expenditure on hospital-based renal treatment in (a) the Greater Glasgow health board area and (b) Scotland in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

This information is not collected centrally. The hon. Member may wish to write to the health boards which provide renal treatment—Greater Glasgow, Lothian, Tayside, Grampian and Highland.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report (i) the number of beds and (ii) the number of nurses allocated to renal dialysis units in hospitals in (a) the Greater Glasgow health board area, (b) the west of Scotland and (c) Scotland, in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

This information is not available centrally. The hon. Member may wish to approach the health boards which provide renal treatment for information on these points.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what have been the numbers of renal transplant operations carried out in (a) the Greater Glasgow health board area, (b) the west of Scotland and (c) Scotland in each of the past five years for which figures are available;(2) if he will publish in the

Official Report the number of renal patients on (a) hospital dialysis, (b) home dialysis, and (c) peritoneal dialysis in (i) the Greater Glasgow health board area, (ii) the west of Scotland and (iii) Scotland, in each of the last five years for which figures are available;

(3) what has been the annual acceptance rate per million of the total population of new renal patients for treatment in the following areas, in each of the past five years for which figures are available: (a) the Greater Glasgow health board area, (b) the west of Scotland and (c) Scotland.

The services provided by Greater Glasgow health board for the treatment of end-stage renal failure cover, as well as its own area, the areas of Argyll and Clyde, Ayrshire and Arran, Dumfries and Galloway, Forth Valley (part), Lanarkshire and the Western Isles health board. The relevant statistics for the whole of the West of Scotland, so far as these are available centrally, are included in the figures for Greater Glasgow given in the accompanying table.

1979

1980

1981

1982

*1983.

*1984

Transplant operations

(a) Greater Glasgow

334744546586

(b) Scotland

599070104132142
Patients on hospital dialysis

(a) Greater Glasgow

8580808412491

(b) Scotland

159152163177212n.y.a.
Patients on home dialysis

(a) Greater Glasgow

7972748396118

(b) Scotland

203194186184179n.y.a.
Patients on peritoneal dialysis

(a) Greater Glasgow

not52566688154

(b) Scotland

available7599151187n.y.a.
Acceptance rate of new renal patients per million of the population

(a) Greater Glasgow

10·721·125·330·836·9n.y.a.

(b) Scotland

9·122·922·831·041·2n.y.a.

* Provisional.

n.y.a. = not yet available.