asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will improve the technological facilities available to general practitioners in Wales to enable them to provide up-to-date information to patients on waiting lists for hospital treatment everywhere in the United Kingdom.
GPs are private contractors and any improvement of technological facilities is therefore a matter for each practice to consider. The dissemination of hospital waiting list information is a matter for the district health authority. Generally in Wales such information is sent to GPs within the district, who are free to refer patients as they deem appropriate, both within and outside Wales, if the patients are willing to travel.
asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by hospital the waiting lists for in-patient and out-patient treatment in the South Glamorgan area health authority.
The requested information is given in the following table:
| Total waiting list as at 31 December 1986 | ||
| Hospital/Clinic | In-patients | Out-patients |
| University Hospital of Wales | 4,981 | 11,523 |
| Dental Hospital | — | 1,675 |
| Children's ENT | 424 | 480 |
| Cardiff Royal Infirmary | 823 | 314 |
| Prince of Wales | 1,472 | — |
| Rookwood | — | — |
| St. Davids | — | 3 |
| Lansdowne | — | — |
| Glan Ely | — | — |
| Llandough | 412 | 595 |
| Barry Community | — | — |
| Sully | — | — |
| Amy Evans Clinic | — | 822 |
| Neale Kent | — | — |
| Royal Hamadryad | — | — |
| Whitchurch | — | — |
| Ely | — | — |
| Velindre | 50 | 59 |