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Mr. Tony Banks
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide details of the Brighton health authority waiting list for each category of care for each year from 1979, and for each quarter in 1987.
| Number of patients on the in-patient waiting list for Brighton District Health Authority from 31 March 1979 to 31 March 1987 | |||||||||
| Specialty | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 |
| Thoracic medicine | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dermatology | — | — | 12 | 10 | 19 | — | 7 | — | — |
| Geriatrics | 43 | 13 | 45 | 38 | — | 9 | 10 | 18 | 13 |
| General surgery | 1,696 | 1,398 | 1,197 | 1,020 | 1,108 | 1,046 | 1,463 | 1,024 | 1,138 |
| Ear, nose and throat | 556 | 554 | 436 | 395 | 670 | 471 | 477 | 405 | 568 |
| Traumatic and orthopaedic | 873 | 896 | 826 | 907 | 979 | 874 | 625 | 678 | 984 |
| Ophthalmology | 51 | 113 | 169 | 131 | 204 | 299 | 320 | 207 | 148 |
| Urology | 722 | 568 | 568 | 494 | 456 | 725 | 601 | 553 | 225 |
| Plastic surgery | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 18 | 30 |
| Oral surgery | 112 | 223 | 129 | 107 | 123 | 144 | 164 | 204 | 237 |
| Orthodontics | — | — | — | — | — | 10 | — | 4 | 1 |
Mr. Newton
[holding answer 4 March 1988]: The information available centrally is given in the table.
Specially
| 1979
| 1980
| 1981
| 1982
| 1983
| 1984
| 1985
| 1986
| 1987
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| Neurosurgery | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — |
| Gynaecology | 391 | 367 | 284 | 345 | 242 | 281 | 303 | 413 | 398 |
| Mental illness | 15 | 39 | 17 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — |
| G.P. dental | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paediatric surgery1 | — | 52 | 63 | — | — | — | — | 360 | 244 |
| Other | — | 23 | 24 | 30 | — | — | 33 | 29 | 36 |
| Total | 4,515 | 4,250 | 3,770 | 3,493 | 3,801 | 3,859 | 4,006 | 3,915 | 4,022 |
1 between 1982 and 1985, Paediatric Surgery was included in General Surgery. | |||||||||