asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will set out region by region, health board in-patient waiting lists, the total population living in each district, the percentage which the former represents of the latter and their national ranking by that percentage.
The information requested is as follows:
Waiting List as at 30 September 19861
| Estimated population as at 30 June 1985
| Waiting List as percentage of population2
| Ranking
| |
| Argyll and Clyde | 6,528 | 446,637 | 1·46 | 8 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | 4,862 | 375,212 | 1·30 | 7 |
| Borders | 301 | 101,705 | 0·30 | 3 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3,205 | 146,562 | 2·19 | 15 |
| Fife | 5,468 | 344,019 | 1·59 | 11 |
| Forth Valley | 2,558 | 272,426 | 0·94 | 5 |
| Grampian | 9,969 | 500,566 | 1·99 | 14 |
| Greater Glasgow | 17,866 | 968,801 | 1·84 | 12 |
| Highland | 3,040 | 198,617 | 1·53 | 9 |
| Lanarkshire | 6,249 | 568,077 | 1·10 | 6 |
| Lothian | 14,341 | 745,229 | 1·92 | 13 |
| Orkney | 50 | 19,351 | 0·26 | 2 |
| Shetland | 142 | 23,440 | 0·61 | 4 |
| Tayside | 6,215 | 394,322 | 1·58 | 10 |
| Western Isles | 68 | 31,545 | 0·22 | 1 |
| Scotland | 80,862 | 5,136,509 | 1·57 | — |
1 Provisional. | ||||
2 The numbers on the waiting list for a particular health board may include numbers of people not resident in that health board area. | ||||
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will set out region by region, the hospital urgent in-patient waiting list in each district, together with the number of urgent cases waiting more than a month, the percentage the latter represents of the former and their national ranking by that percentage;(2) if he will set out region by region, the hospital non-urgent in-patient waiting list in each health district together with the number of non-urgent cases waiting more than a year, the percentage the latter represents of the former and their national ranking by that percentage.
This information is not available centrally.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the hospital in-patient waiting lists for each health board at the end of September 1986.
[pursuant to his reply, 19 March 1987, c. 580]: The information requested, which relates to 30 September 1986 and is provisional, follows:
| Number | |
| Argyll and Clyde | 6,528 |
| Aryshire and Arran | 4,862 |
| Borders | 301 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 3,205 |
| Fife | 5,468 |
| Forth Valley | 2,558 |
| Grampian | 9,969 |
| Greater Glasgow | 17,866 |
| Highland | 3,040 |
| Lanarkshire | 6,249 |
| Lothian | 14,341 |
| Orkney | 50 |
| Shetland | 142 |
| Tayside | 6,215 |
| Western Isles | 68 |
| Scotland | 80,862 |