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
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| 1981
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*1983. |
*1984
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Transplant operations | (a) Greater Glasgow | 33 | 47 | 44 | 54 | 65 | 86 |
(b) Scotland | 59 | 90 | 70 | 104 | 132 | 142 | |
Patients on hospital dialysis | (a) Greater Glasgow | 85 | 80 | 80 | 84 | 124 | 91 |
(b) Scotland | 159 | 152 | 163 | 177 | 212 | n.y.a. | |
Patients on home dialysis | (a) Greater Glasgow | 79 | 72 | 74 | 83 | 96 | 118 |
(b) Scotland | 203 | 194 | 186 | 184 | 179 | n.y.a. | |
Patients on peritoneal dialysis | (a) Greater Glasgow | not | 52 | 56 | 66 | 88 | 154 |
(b) Scotland | available | 75 | 99 | 151 | 187 | n.y.a. | |
Acceptance rate of new renal patients per million of the population | (a) Greater Glasgow | 10·7 | 21·1 | 25·3 | 30·8 | 36·9 | n.y.a. |
(b) Scotland | 9·1 | 22·9 | 22·8 | 31·0 | 41·2 | n.y.a. | |
* Provisional. | |||||||
n.y.a. = not yet available. |